best program to fix thousands of folder shortcuts?

"George" <george@nothome.com> wrote:

>I've got a folder that's named S that within it is a thousand different
>folders and files on my D partition, and on other partitions there are a
>thousand shortcuts to those different folders, but I've had to change the
>name of that S folder to something different and I want to change those
>shortcuts names from saying S to the current name.
>
>Is there a program to help fix the name of these shortcuts in one swoop?

Best bet is for you to google "bulk rename utility"

PD43 wrote:
> "George" <george@nothome.com> wrote:
>
>> I've got a folder that's named S that within it is a thousand different
>> folders and files on my D partition, and on other partitions there are a
>> thousand shortcuts to those different folders, but I've had to change the
>> name of that S folder to something different and I want to change those
>> shortcuts names from saying S to the current name.
>>
>> Is there a program to help fix the name of these shortcuts in one swoop?
>
> Best bet is for you to google "bulk rename utility"
IIRC bulk rename only renames files. I think the OP has shortcuts to
deal with. That's going to be a tough one.

Big Al <BigAl@nowhere.com> wrote:

>>> Is there a program to help fix the name of these shortcuts in one swoop?
>>
>> Best bet is for you to google "bulk rename utility"
>IIRC bulk rename only renames files. I think the OP has shortcuts to
>deal with. That's going to be a tough one.

You're absolutely right.

I think he's f***ed.

Read up on something called "Junction Points", can't guarantee it will
work but may be an alternative to renaming/recreating shortcuts.

"Big Al" <BigAl@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> PD43 wrote:
>> "George" <george@nothome.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I've got a folder that's named S that within it is a thousand different
>>> folders and files on my D partition, and on other partitions there are a
>>> thousand shortcuts to those different folders, but I've had to change
>>> the
>>> name of that S folder to something different and I want to change those
>>> shortcuts names from saying S to the current name.
>>>
>>> Is there a program to help fix the name of these shortcuts in one swoop?
>>
>> Best bet is for you to google "bulk rename utility"
> IIRC bulk rename only renames files. I think the OP has shortcuts to
> deal with. That's going to be a tough one.

"George" <george@nothome.com> wrote in message
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> I've got a folder that's named S that within it is a thousand different
> folders and files on my D partition, and on other partitions there are a
> thousand shortcuts to those different folders, but I've had to change the
> name of that S folder to something different and I want to change those
> shortcuts names from saying S to the current name.
>
> Is there a program to help fix the name of these shortcuts in one swoop?
> Maybe it would have a search and replace, or maybe it would mass fix the
> addresses, I don't know, but naturally I don't want to have to do them all
> one by one - which is almost impossible, thank you

Try R. McCarty's suggestion by running this command from a
Command Prompt:
linkd "D:\S" "D:\Your New Folder name"

This means that you don't need to change your shortcuts even though
folder S no longer exists. Note that drive D: must be an NTFS
volume.

Linkd.exe comes with the Windows Resource Kit.

On Apr 8, 5:30*am, "George" <geo...@nothome.com> wrote:
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...rtcuts+folders
> I can see a lot of programs that may do it - well in some sense anyway, I
> was just asking if anyone knows which is best one - in their experience.

Be the first on your block to be the HERO of this topic: pick a few
and review them here for the next person with the same problem.

"George" <george@nothome.com> wrote in message
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> I've got a folder that's named S that within it is a thousand different
> folders and files on my D partition, and on other partitions there are a
> thousand shortcuts to those different folders, but I've had to change the
> name of that S folder to something different and I want to change those
> shortcuts names from saying S to the current name.
>
> Is there a program to help fix the name of these shortcuts in one swoop?
> Maybe it would have a search and replace, or maybe it would mass fix the
> addresses, I don't know, but naturally I don't want to have to do them all
> one by one - which is almost impossible, thank you

You could use the script below as an engine to change your
shortcuts. The full implementation depends on where exactly
your shortcuts reside and what their names are.
Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Set objFolder = objShell.Namespace("d:\")
Set objFolderItem = objFolder.ParseName("Sciam.lnk")
Set objShellLink = objFolderItem.GetLink
objShellLink.Path = "d:\New Folder"
objShellLink.Save()

"George" <george@nothome.com> wrote in message
news:%233OhhiOmIHA.3636@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> I've got a folder that's named S that within it is a thousand different
> folders and files on my D partition, and on other partitions there are a
> thousand shortcuts to those different folders, but I've had to change the
> name of that S folder to something different and I want to change those
> shortcuts names from saying S to the current name.
>
> Is there a program to help fix the name of these shortcuts in one swoop?
> Maybe it would have a search and replace, or maybe it would mass fix the
> addresses, I don't know, but naturally I don't want to have to do them all
> one by one - which is almost impossible, thank you

Switch to something like Linux which is a proper operation
system as opposed to the Mickey Mouse variety.
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"George" <george@nothome.com> wrote
> I've got a folder that's named S that within it is a thousand different
> folders and files on my D partition, and on other partitions there are a
> thousand shortcuts to those different folders, but I've had to change the
> name of that S folder to something different and I want to change those
> shortcuts names from saying S to the current name.
>
> Is there a program to help fix the name of these shortcuts in one swoop?
> Maybe it would have a search and replace, or maybe it would mass fix the
> addresses, I don't know, but naturally I don't want to have to do them all
> one by one - which is almost impossible, thank you

George, check the date on your system. You're posting from the future.

--
Rock [MS-MVP]

"George" <george@nothome.com> wrote in message
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> I've got a folder that's named S that within it is a thousand different
> folders and files on my D partition, and on other partitions there are a
> thousand shortcuts to those different folders, but I've had to change the
> name of that S folder to something different and I want to change those
> shortcuts names from saying S to the current name.
>
> Is there a program to help fix the name of these shortcuts in one swoop?
> Maybe it would have a search and replace, or maybe it would mass fix the
> addresses, I don't know, but naturally I don't want to have to do them all
> one by one - which is almost impossible, thank you


You might like to take a look at this.
http://www.robvanderwoude.com/amb_shortcuts.html
I am reading it myself, out of interest.
Will report back (probably)

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