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Tool to validate URLs and other locations in the menu
Jean Lalonde > 2020-11-29 10:26
Suggestion received by Facebook Messenger:
Allow QAP users to hit a button and have it go through all URLs and check they are valid / working. (I'd check both URLs and snippets that have URLS in them). I wouldn't necessarily incorporate the results in QAP, I'd just have it dump it to a tab delimited file with each URL checked showing the menu hierarchy where it is and the status returned from the http request). I suppose you could also do some sort of check for files / folders -
RE: Tool to validate URLs and other locations in the menu
Jean Lalonde > 2020-12-02 18:26
+1 from zvi_t. -
RE: Tool to validate URLs and other locations in the menu
Horst > 2020-12-03 02:51
+1 from me -
RE: Tool to validate URLs and other locations in the menu
Zvi Twersky > 2021-01-10 21:36
I came here to see if there was any progress. My original post was about all the links in QAP, mainly folders and files. I don't use it much for literal Internet URLs but I see you added files and folders as a "maybe" at the end. I hope you put a focus on that. I just reorganized my drives and folder structure and many of my QAP folder/file links are broken and I don't have the strength to check them all one by one. So I just fix them as a need one and get a warning, which is frustrating because it always happens when I'm busy and don't want to have to fix things (murphy's law
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RE: Tool to validate URLs and other locations in the menu
Jean Lalonde > 2021-01-12 11:50
Hi Zvi,
> My original post was about all the links in QAP, mainly folders and files.
Yes, there will be a new submenu "Special Searches" under the "Tools" menu with options to search for broken file locations and another one for broken Internet links. See this preview of the menu:
![[Image: UP9i6Vh.png]](https://i.imgur.com/UP9i6Vh.png)
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RE: Tool to validate URLs and other locations in the menu
Jean Lalonde > 2021-01-13 17:05
If you are willing to run a beta release, the new "Special Searches" are included in the v11.1.0.9.2
https://forum.quickaccesspopup.com/showt...p?tid=1425
If this is your first time using a beta release, please read:
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RE: Tool to validate URLs and other locations in the menu
Jean Lalonde > 2021-01-31 14:28
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RE: Tool to validate URLs and other locations in the menu
Zvi Twersky > 2021-04-28 20:33
Just moved back permanently to the US and setting up my new computer. I think I wasn't clear about my suggestion.
Yes, the special search finds all broken folder shortcuts (over 100 of them) but doesn't fix them. I would like the QAP would be able to scan my hard drives and fix the links to the folder as only the drive letter changed on all of them (and some root folder names) -
RE: Tool to validate URLs and other locations in the menu
Jean Lalonde > 2021-04-28 20:48
This is right. The feature added in v11.2 only covers part of your suggestion.
> I would like the QAP would be able to scan my hard drives and fix the links to the folder as only the drive letter changed on all of them (and some root folder names)
In this case, how QAP would know that only the drive letter of folder name changed? QAP would need to be instructed on what need to be changed. Maybe this other suggestion could help you, allowing to "find and replace" the part of the path that has been moved in files reported as not found.
https://forum.quickaccesspopup.com/showt...p?tid=1396 -
RE: Tool to validate URLs and other locations in the menu
Zvi Twersky > 2021-04-30 05:09
(2021-04-28 20:48)Jean Lalonde Wrote: In this case, how QAP would know that only the drive letter of folder name changed? QAP would need to be instructed on what need to be changed.
I didn't mean a case where you changed the name of a root folder (or any folder in the current path) but rather added another subfolder to the current path. In other words, moving the current location to a new location.
All of my >100 QAP full paths are intact, I just have them now either on a different drive letter or a different location.
It's very simple: All QAP would need to do is scan all drives and look for the location of the full QAP path excluding the drive letter. This would find the correct paths of changed drive letters or if you moved your entire folder to a new location with a now new root folder.
This would NOT fix if you moved only one of a multi-sub folder to a different location (or changed any of the folder names of the current paths)
EXAMPLES THAT QAP CAN FIX:
OLD PATH = H:\OFFICE\BRANDING\IDEAS
NEW PATH = I:\MY-WORK\OFFICE\BRANDING\IDEAS or I:\OFFICE\BRANDING\IDEAS
REASON: \OFFICE\BRANDING\IDEAS is intact.
EXAMPLES THAT QAP CANNOT FIX:
OLD PATH = H:\OFFICE\BRANDING\IDEAS
NEW PATH = I:\OFFICE\MY-WORK\BRANDING\IDEAS
REASON: \OFFICE\BRANDING\IDEAS has changed. -
RE: Tool to validate URLs and other locations in the menu
Jean Lalonde > 2021-04-30 08:37
I see what you mean. But I think that the "find and replace" approach (https://forum.quickaccesspopup.com/showt...p?tid=1396) would be simpler to implement and give more flexibility to user. In these examples:
OLD PATH = H:\OFFICE\BRANDING\IDEAS
NEW PATH = I:\MY-WORK\OFFICE\BRANDING\IDEAS or I:\OFFICE\BRANDING\IDEAS
Replace "H:\OFFICE\" with "I:\MY-WORK\OFFICE\" (assuming every favorites under H:\OFFICE\ has been moved)
OLD PATH = H:\OFFICE\BRANDING\IDEAS
NEW PATH = I:\OFFICE\MY-WORK\BRANDING\IDEAS
Replace "H:\OFFICE\BRANDING\" with " I:\OFFICE\MY-WORK\BRANDING\" (assuming every favorites underH:\OFFICE\BRANDING\ has been moved) -
RE: Tool to validate URLs and other locations in the menu
Zvi Twersky > 2021-04-30 09:13
The second one might be harder to do. Who says that
\OFFICE\MY-WORK\BRANDING\IDEAS
is the same folder as
\OFFICE\BRANDING\IDEAS
used to be?
Maybe the user has two folders for branding ideas - one in OFFICE\BRANDING\IDEAS and one in \OFFICE\MY-WORK\BRANDING\IDEAS
That's why with my suggestion, it should only work if the original path of the FOLDERS were to stay intact. -
RE: Tool to validate URLs and other locations in the menu
Jean Lalonde > 2021-04-30 10:48
> That's why with my suggestion, it should only work if the original path of the FOLDERS were to stay intact.
Good point. To keep this simpler, for now, I would stick to the "find and replace" approach and display a prompt to confirm each replace or select "Replace all" and let the user decide. -
RE: Tool to validate URLs and other locations in the menu
Zvi Twersky > 2021-04-30 20:14
(2021-04-30 10:48)Jean Lalonde Wrote: > That's why with my suggestion, it should only work if the original path of the FOLDERS were to stay intact.
Good point. To keep this simpler, for now, I would stick to the "find and replace" approach and display a prompt to confirm each replace or select "Replace all" and let the user decide.
Great idea. If I could choose 98% of the found broken links and tell QAP to just change the drive letter for those, that would save me lots of time. -
RE: Tool to validate URLs and other locations in the menu
Jean Lalonde > 2021-04-30 20:34
> If I could choose 98% of the found broken links and tell QAP to just change the drive letter for those, that would save me lots of time.
Do you mean that you would choose the broken favorites to fix from the list of the search result for files not found? -
RE: Tool to validate URLs and other locations in the menu
Zvi Twersky > 2021-05-01 04:59
(2021-04-30 20:34)Jean Lalonde Wrote: > If I could choose 98% of the found broken links and tell QAP to just change the drive letter for those, that would save me lots of time.
Do you mean that you would choose the broken favorites to fix from the list of the search result for files not found?
Correct (soft of)
You wrote: "or select "Replace all" and let the user decide."
Replace all would be an issue if I need to change the drive letter on say 90% of the links.
I would like to be able to ctr-click or shft-click to select a portion of the search results and decide what to do with the selection, like change drive letter.
But that's not a deal-breaker because I can first manually fix the few that have root folders added, and then do select all to change the drive letter on the rest with one click.
You already have a code that changes the path... it comes up when we try to open a broken link. The popup says something like "target can't be found, would you like to open QAP and fix this?" When I choose to fix, a browse button allows me to choose a different target.
So, this code would just loop when fixing all.