Essential Migration Terminology
Definitions of words, acronyms, and terms used in Data Migration.
A link is defined as the information contained in a parent file that designates the name and the location (drive, folder, etc.) of a child file pointed to b...
Tue, 9 Jun, 2020 at 2:30 PM
LinkFixer Advanced considers a link to be “broken” if any of the following occur:
The child file that a link points to does not exist, or
The child ...
Tue, 13 Jun, 2017 at 9:45 AM
A parent file is defined as a file that contains one or more links that point to some other file or files.
Wed, 2 Aug, 2017 at 3:17 PM
A child file is defined as a file that is pointed to by a link in a parent file.
Wed, 2 Aug, 2017 at 3:17 PM
LinkFixer Advanced's Inoculate process inserts a 16-digit hexadecimal "locator beacon" into the metadata of the files it processes. When ...
Thu, 11 Jun, 2020 at 5:59 PM
LinkFixer Advanced Inoculate process inserts a 16-digit hexadecimal "locator beacon" into the metadata of the files it processes. When this ...
Wed, 2 Aug, 2017 at 3:12 PM
A "relative" link is a link that contains only the information necessary to navigate from the location of the parent file to the location of the c...
Tue, 1 Aug, 2017 at 4:37 PM
An "absolute" link is one that contains the complete file path to the child file pointed to by the link. This includes the drive letter, the direc...
Wed, 10 Jun, 2020 at 3:12 PM
A "UNC" link is one that contains the complete network path to the child file pointed to by the link. This includes the server, the share name, th...
Wed, 2 Aug, 2017 at 8:59 AM
When LinkFixer Advanced tries to perform an action and it fails, we report two things: What we were trying to do. We call this the action. Each action has ...
Thu, 19 Sep, 2024 at 2:23 PM