How to fix broken links to media?

First … welcome to the community :tada: and your first post :+1:t3:

If it’s just 2 links, probably the simplest solution is, for each media file …

  • go to the specific media file in the RM interface

  • click inside the “Filename” field

  • click the little “page” icon at the far right

  • in the resulting Windows file dialog box, browse to the location of the actual file

  • click on the media file

  • click through the OK buttons.

That should pipe the resulting file path into the media file’s relevant field.

The MAXPATH limit varies depending on your file system, but if you have a new PC it’s probably using NTFS. You can read more about paths and maxpath here and here if you want to nerd out.

If browsing for the files doesn’t work, you might have to construct an old school path using DOS 8.3 short names. Highly unlikely that you’ll have to do that. But if you do, you can get short paths by going into a command prompt and typing dir /x . (Note: you will have to identify the short paths for each sub-directory and the specific file.)

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