Supporting Your Media
A bad import is recoverable when you planned for it. Every so often, something slips through, a wrong AutoFix guess that looked fine at a glance, or a workbook edit that turns out to be off. The instinct is to try and patch it live, chasing the fix with another fix. Resist that. It’s almost … Read more
Once the database has been repaired, it’s rinse and repeat, with a twist. By this point you know how the repair works: export → autofix → review → validate → import. Well, its the same process for the rest with one additonal step. Introducing CrossRef… Chances are, that if a file used to be somewhere … Read more
Use repeatable batches instead of one overwhelming rescue attempt. Older libraries, or ones that have moved drives a few times over the years, can turn up genuinely large numbers of broken paths, history in particular tends to accumulate a lot of stale entries over time. Facing a workbook with hundreds of rows in one sitting … Read more