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1. changing links in multiple ppt files using search and replace
I have a client with 100's of files all using links to even more
files. I need to move all the files and associated files from the
current server to a new server. Opening each file to update the links
is too time consuming. Is there a tool or script that I can point at a
folder and have it scan through each powerpoint file and replace
x:\path\to\file with \\server\share\path\to\file.
I have found commercial software to do this for Excel and Word,
but no luck for Powerpoint. Any ideas?
Thanks,
William
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Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
I want search a text block for a paragraph followed by any digit and replace the paragraph mark with a tab and keep the digit that was there. I could do the search 10 times changing the search/replace from 0 thru 9, but can't I use a wildcard or some other trick in the replace string so that I can use the any digit string - ^# - in the find function and do the procedure 1 time?
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7. iCab ZIP files (was: Difficult File Find Task (OS 9.2.2))
> If you don't find a solution to this, try using iCab for the
> downloading. It saves the page, or set of pages if you tell it to get
> more than one in same path or server, to a single zip file which iCab
> can open, and in iCab all the links still work (i.e point to the
> original location, not the place you saved your file, which just gives a
> 'not found', and the urls are visible in the top field. You could unzip
> the thing if you need to look at it with a different browser.
I was almost sure that would come up. Yes, I used iCab for a while and
abandoned it for one very good reason: The method you describe *does not
work*. Did you ever try it? It's implemented in a way that you will only use
it a few times.
I would prefer iCab otherwise (Mozilla is sluggish, abandoned and has a lot
of annoying bugs).
Here's why it doesn't work: not only doesn't it append ".zip" to the
filename (which you would need for opening it on a different plattform), the
archives are organized in a way that makes them useless for use without iCab
or on other platforms:
When you unpack them, the unpacked folder consists of an empty file named
"iCabWebArchive" plus several subfolders (which contain additional
subfolders etc.). The main page is buried somewhere down in some subfolder
whose name is not consistent (mostly the folder's name is www.something,
from the site's domain). So how does iCab itself find the file inside the
archive? The zip file contains near its beginning the path to the file that
is the starting point (graphics etc. are referenced from there). Here's an
example from the data fork of a random iCab archive on my hard drive:
www.de.tomshardware.com/motherboard/19980731/sock7_mobos-12.html.
That's the file "sock7_mobos-12.html" in the folder "19980731" in the folder
"motherboard" in the folder "www.de.tomshardware.com" in the folder you
unzipped the file into. The path to the file is not documented once the
archive is unzipped. Now go find that file.
Plus, they store the path to other items in a strange way (probably the
original URL), not a relative file path, so the saved and unzipped pages
will display without the graphics etc. (and maybe even without the inner
frame that contains the relevant information).
I really dislike they did that. They even advertise the zip archive format
and its portability, which I consider a broken promise from the start.
OTOH, Mozilla (when it's working) will save the starting point file under a
name you choose (and append ".html" automatically) and all other items are
stored in a "..._files" folder besides the main file. That's pretty much the
way IE stores complete web pages under Windows (unfortunately not on the
Mac) and the most compatible and portable way I could think of.
And btw if you're in any way affiliated with iCab or to any one of them who
is listening: Please change hat!
Or, if you can, introduce a "Save as really universally compatible ZIP
archive" mode as an option.
Or, if I missed the boat here in some way, please let me now.
Probably there would be a way to restructure the unzipped archives
(AppleScript?), but I have no time to learn that in the near future (no time
for that). And we're talking about thousands of files herem so I need an
easy and effortless method.
Alex
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8. find-by-content not finding Powerpoint or Excel files