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Need to mass modify, is it possible??
I am running Links 2.0 to manage my articles database. I own two domains: thefamilycorner.com and familycorner.com

My issue is that I need to change 2,249 entries from "thefamilycorner.com/remainder_of_url.shtml" to "familycorner.com/remainder_etc.shtml"

These are all different urls, as I mentioned I manage my articles through here, not outbound links for link exchanges.

Is there a way to perform a "find & replace" to change one url to another, and at the same time, not affecting the remainder of each url so as not to affect the articles?

I hope I'm making sense. Thanks for any help you can provide!

Amanda
www.familycorner.com
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I've done this in the past but not through the control panel. What I did was download links.db from the server ( eg. /cgi-bin/links/admin/data/links.db ) and then open it with Wordpad. You can then "find and replace". Save it, reload to the server and then rebuild in the control panel.

Note: When you download links.db save a copy incase you need to restore the original.
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Re: [MJB] Need to mass modify, is it possible?? In reply to
Thank you! That did the trick!!