Alan, Thank you so much for your speedy response. The images are in different places I'll try the second option as you suggest. I don't understand the specific meanings of (.*?) $1 and [^":]+):? with ?$1/? Is there a reference/source where I can learn more about searches and what those expressions mean? Best regards, James

On Friday, October 06, 2006, at 10:15AM, Allan Odgaard throw-away-1@macromates.com wrote:

On 6. Oct 2006, at 18:43, thelittleredhen@mac.com wrote:

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I have an xml file that contains numerous image paths in this format <Pic_path href="HD2:Working Files:images:testpic.jpg"/>

I need to convert them to this format <Pic_path href="file:/// Volumes/HD2/Working Files/images/testpic.jpg"/>

Is there any way I can get TM to search for the paths and convert the text?

If all the images are in the same location, you can enable Regular Expressions, then search for: ?<Pic_path href="HD2:Working Files:images:(.*?)"/>? and replace with: ?<Pic_path href="file:/// Volumes/HD2/Working Files/images/$1"/>?.

If however they vary in path, you will need to first do a replace from: ?<Pic_path href="HD2:? to ?<Pic_path href="file:///Volumes/HD2/?.

Then repeat a (regular expression) replace of: ?(<Pic_path href="file:///Volumes/HD2/[^":]+):? with ?$1/? until no replacements are done.

Do a backup first!

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