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Hi Oliver
Where can I find information on understanding the console output data e.g. what does (x, y) represent in ABC.xls (22, 0)?
I'm trying to put together info on what appears to a two pass mechanism for searching and changing the target files.
What I am seeing is RM processing files during the second pass, "Updating links in..." even when the search/replace strings were not found during pass one. As you can imagine if we have multiple search strings, which is often, this adds a lot of wasted time to processing a list of target files . The overall processing time would appear to be linear based upon number of distinct search strings. I'm just looking for the most time-efficient way to process many files.
Thanks
Jim
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Hi Jim,
Basically console output is same like that what you see in list of found files ("Find documents" tab).
For example, ABC.xls (22, 0) means that in document ABC ReplaceMagic found 22 hyperlinks and 0 OLE object links.
Messages that you see below when ReplaceMagic is processing files will change for each document area that is supported by document (Updating hyperlinks..., updating text...).
In a way first pass is scanning files in "Find documents" tab where RM will go through your folder(s) and make list of all found files with number of hyperlinks and OLE object links.
There is a way to avoid this and for that you will need to use "Quick Replace" feature (in "Search & Replace" tab). Feature description from help file:
"QuickReplace - in case that you do not want to do full scan of your documents but just want to make replacements select quick replace and RM will not go deep into your files to calculate number of links as it will do if you do not select QuickReplace. In case that you already scanned your files and RM returned all your documents with number of links this setting will not have any influence."
As you can see by setting this RM will not have double scan but you will not have list of found files before you do not start replacement process.
Btw. this scan with notification how many hyperlinks and OLE links you have in documents comes from past when ReplaceMagic was used only for scanning those two document areas.
I hope that this helped a little.
Best regards,
Oliver
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Oliver
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Thanks Oliver getting back so fast and for explaining the output numbers ABC.xls(#1,#2).
What would be good, maybe it's already possible, to scan the files/folders from within "Find Documents" tab and save/export this list to a file (.csv). Then at a later time, import this file into RM and use this target list for the single "Search & Replace" pass.
The "Quick Replace" option restricts RM to do one search/replace pass, essentially fix-on-discovery? This maybe the solution. In some cases there's no need to know ahead of time which files will be changed, just need RM to get to it, get it done and finish as quickly as possibe.
Just not sure what you mean by "...RM will not go deep into your files..." when the Quick Replace option is selected. Does this mean the search/replace will not cover all selected search items?
Thanks
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For now is not possible to import list of previously scanned files but this is nice idea :). Export of found files list is possible.
That what you wrote about "Quick Replace" is exactly how it works.
"...RM will not go deep into your files..." means that RM will not first count hyperlinks and OLE links, it will go straight to replacement process and save some time.
Oliver
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Thanks for your fast response and support.
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