Manually edit PDF locations on drive?

EndNote EndNote General
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I recently moved my PDF library from one drive to another. However now the links in Endnote X2 are of course broken. I would like to be able to just search/replace the drive name in my EndNote library but this does not seem to be possible. Short of manually relinking all PDFs (several thousand), how could I do this?

One option I have considered is exporting the library, opening the file in a word processor, and changing the text there. However, if I reimport this, the record numbers will of course be changed and all manual formatting lost, so I would rather not do this.

any suggestions are appreciated!

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In addition to the Leanne’s suggestion, this thread may help.

http://forums.thomsonscientific.com/ts/board/message?board.id=en-general&thread.id=1135

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Unfortunately I cannot move them back, but that would not have helped. I don’t want to use relative paths as I don’t want to keep my PDFs on the same drive as my EndNote library; they are all neatly sorted by journal so I can find the PDF I want without even opening EndNote.

It is quite frustrating that I cannot simply search/replace the necessary text.

Thanks anyhow!