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Relink hundreds of folders?

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  • GaryStebbins
    Member

    My hard disk failed, and I've restored all of my images to another drive. When I try to access any image through categories, I get the message "item located on unmounted volume". I've read the FAQ, "Why does ACDSee inform me that my local hard drive is 'not mounted'?". It appears I could relink each folder to the same folder on the new volume (which is also only temporary until I rebuild my storage structure). However, I have hundreds of folders. Tech support told me this was the only way.

    Has anyone discovered a better way to resolve this problem? Relinking hundreds of folders one at a time sounds daunting and error prone...

    Thanks.

    Posted On October 26, 2006 - 02:04 PM (3 years ago) (Permalink to this post)

  • mrwul
    Member

    Gary42 said:

    My hard disk failed, and I've restored all of my images to another drive. When I try to access any image through categories, I get the message "item located on unmounted volume". I've read the FAQ, "Why does ACDSee inform me that my local hard drive is 'not mounted'?". It appears I could relink each folder to the same folder on the new volume (which is also only temporary until I rebuild my storage structure). However, I have hundreds of folders. Tech support told me this was the only way.

    Has anyone discovered a better way to resolve this problem? Relinking hundreds of folders one at a time sounds daunting and error prone...

    Thanks.

    Just a wild guess, maybe

    > Click Database, and then select Database Maintenance. Change Bindings may help...??

    > Change Binding: Changes all location references for the selected orphaned folder to
    another folder, and retains all database information. The default binding folder is My
    Pictures.

    just an idea only.

    brgds

    Posted On November 30, 2006 - 02:01 PM (2 years ago) (Permalink to this post)

  • John Radcliffe
    Member

    Sounds right to me. That should do it all in one go (as the file structure should be the same).

    On my laptop my pictures are on C: but on D: my desktop. So when I copied the database over, ACDSee couldn't find the pictures, but a single Binding Change did the trick.

    Posted On December 1, 2006 - 12:41 PM (2 years ago) (Permalink to this post)

  • cplemoine
    Member

    John_R said:

    Sounds right to me. That should do it all in one go (as the file structure should be the same).

    On my laptop my pictures are on C: but on D: my desktop. So when I copied the database over, ACDSee couldn't find the pictures, but a single Binding Change did the trick.


    Changing the binding did the trick for me, thanks!

    Posted On February 5, 2007 - 04:07 PM (2 years ago) (Permalink to this post)

  • harringg
    Member

    I tried the Binding and it didn't work. I've moved my actual files from on HDD to a new one.  I had images in HDD1:Images and now they are on HDD2:Photos

    The only thing changed is the "root" folder.  I selected Photos and chose Rebind, but still when I do a search for images via keywords, I still get an error that the original can't be found.  When I try to rebind it to Photos it says an error occurred.  Any ideas? Do I have to drill down to each folder of images?

    Posted On September 6, 2009 - 12:02 AM (2 months ago) (Permalink to this post)

  • ucyimb4u
    Member

    What if you changed the name of the root folder on HDD2 to Images, made sure the bindings got re-established like you want, and then rename the root folder back to Photos in ACD?  I didn't try it, but I would think that if ACD sees the rename, the bindings would all be updated??? 

    Posted On September 9, 2009 - 09:55 PM (2 months ago) (Permalink to this post)

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