Hello,
We are moving a load of linked files on a server consolidation, as
expected the links are no longer valid, using a global search and
replace method I have corrected the paths, however where the link is
no longer valid, renamed folders, deleted files, renamed worksheets,
etc when you open and update links any that are no longer valid
return #REF errors, all this is expected as I have done a similiar
project in the past but with only a few hundred files and I was able
to manually correct or break links to save the data if necessary.

This move has 40,000 plus files of which about 10,000 have links,
doing this manually is out of the question.

Taking a single file as an example, after doing the global search and
replace, the basic paths are now correct, open the file, don't update
links, go to links dialog, it is linked to 6 other files, update the
values, 4 are status "OK" and 2 links say are no longer valid and
status is "Error: Source not found."

What I want to do is keep the 4 valid links that are updating
correctly, and break links on the other 2 saving the data, so when the
user tests the files when the file is opened and all links are updated
there are no #REF errors, I can do this manually and get the desired
result but I can't possibly do the 10,000 linked files manually

If anyone has any ideas that would be very helpful

Cheers
David