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In the past, whenever I cleaned up a bit and moved layers around (or changed their names) my MXD's paths were broken and it was time-consuming to correct them.
I'd like to hear from your experiences and maybe learn a few tips from you:
How do you deal with broken MXD paths?
(I'm looking for solutions for one computer or a simple network drive, so if your solution deals with larger networks or the web please say so).
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OK this is something we have all had to face at one time or another. I have seen 2 methods of dealing with this.
1) as so eloquently put by Andy W, Relative paths. This works best when you have a project MXD in the root of the project folder and all of the data under that in a data folder. Then wherever you move the entire project the links will still exist
2) have a central data repository where all of your data resides and access all of your data from there for all of your MXD's. In this example it might even be an idea to make sure that relative path is turned off.
To turn this on and off you go to the File menu and select document properties
Have Fun, CDB
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