If you migrated jAlbum from XP (a long time ago), you may have some old projects that have bad file paths in the .jap and albumfiles.txt files. You can fix these in jAlbum, but this is time-consuming. This message tells you how to fix the paths for all of your projects in a few minutes.
N.B. If you did not save your project files in XP's "My Documents" folders, or you changed the folder structure in Windows 10, you may need to change some of the paths in the following instructions.
1) Install
TextCrawler Free 3.0.3. This replaces text strings in multiple files.
2) Back up your .jap and albumfiles.txt files.
3) If jAlbum is running, close the project.
N.B. Step 4 may not find any matches; this is normal.
4) Replace all instances of "My Pictures" in .jap files.
Open TextCrawler. Set these options:
(refer to the attached screen print)
Click "Find". A list of all matches is shown. Review this list.
Click "Replace". A list of changes is shown.
5) Replace all instances of "My Documents" in .jap files.
Run TextCrawler with these options:
6) Replace all instances of "My Pictures" in albumfiles.txt.
Run TextCrawler with these options:
- File Filter: albumfiles.txt
- Start Location: C:\Users\username\Documents
- Find: \Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\My Pictures\
- Replace: \users\username\Pictures\
7) Replace all instances of "My Documents" in albumfiles.txt.
Run TextCrawler with these options:
- File Filter: albumfiles.txt
- Start Location: C:\Users\username\Documents
- Find: \Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\
- Replace: \users\username\Documents\
8) Open a project that was created in XP. There should be no broken links.
Edited by: ctwist on 03-Jul-2019 18:35
By default, TextCrawler does not change the file's modified date. You can change this behaviour in the options.
Strangely, it does change the created date; there doesn't seem to be a way to disable this.
