[Scribus] Scribus Digest, Vol 41, Issue 8

[wayne]

On Thursday 06 July 2006 04:11 am, Grant Bloedow wrote:

> On Jul 6, 2006, at 5:00 AM, scribus-request at nashi.altmuehlnet.de wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 5. Juli 2006 22:10 schrieb wayne:
> >> One of my older documents have some images missing due to being moved
> >> around on my hard drive. I know that the missing image is still on ?
> >> the
> >> drive because I can find it with a command line search. But when I ?
> >> do a
> >> search for the missing image from within Scribus (Extras/Manage ?
> >> Pictures),
> >> it searches and searches and eventually crashes (Signal #11). It ?
> >> finds the
> >> image after the crash but there's nothing that can be done due to the
> >> crash.
> >> Any one else experience this?
> >>
> >> Wayne
> >> Scribus 1.3.3.2
> >> Mandriva 2006
>
> Wayne,
> If you haven't already tried this, opening the SLA document in a text ?
> editor like vi or emacs or pico should allow you to edit the path for ?
> the placed images. The document format is fairly easy to decipher and ?
> you should find your paths to correct them to the current location. ?
> Although this isn't a fix for the issue it should recover your file.

Thanks,

I just click on the image (where the image used to be) and reload it from 
it's new location. As long as I conduct the search from outside of 
Scribus, everything works fine.

Wayne