Run a Healthcheck

See the whole problem before you fix any part of it. It’s easy to react to the first broken thing you notice, a handful of missing tracks, say, and dive straight into fixing just that. But libraries rarely break in one place at a time. A drive change or a folder rename can leave broken … Read more

Verify the Result

Trust your results because you checked them. Once an import’s done, it’s tempting to just assume it worked and move on. Don’t hope, check. The way to do that is the same tool you started with: run a Healthcheck again. Comparing the before-and-after picture is genuinely satisfying, you can see the count of broken references … Read more

Managing Large Repair Batches

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 references, 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