Do you have Files that contain Links to other Files?
Customers are often faced with the challenge of what to do when performing data migrations, server consolidations, folder reorganisations, operating system upgrades, file virtualization or document management system implementations such as SharePoint — because as soon as files are moved or renamed, or server or folder names are changed, broken links occur.
Whilst the Customer IT team may be responsible for the storage that the data resides on, they may not be the owners of the data or have any knowledge about what the data is. In turn, many IT stakeholders have no idea if they have any links within the data they host and if they do, no idea how many, let alone where they point to and more importantly if they are already broken and how to remediate them if they are.
If moving or renaming files or folders causes only a few broken links, then the problem is not severe. Links in the files can be repaired manually or perhaps by trying to use scripts (which can’t do the full job, but may be “good enough” if the number of links is small). So what if moving or renaming files or folders causes hundreds, thousands or millions of broken links?
Even if you aren’t planning to move any data then Link Fixing may well still be important and valuable to you to identify links you may have and manage them going forward.