Search and Replace of "External Files"

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Hi,
I don't find an equivalent to the “external file” manager in soft.

I'm aware of the pre flight window but there there's no batch search and replace…

Exemple, I would like to replace path in about 100+ materials maps

Any hints ?
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in a textport you can use opchange

it is VERY powerful and you should read the help and do some test runs in a test file

basically it will search through your file and replace text

eg
opchange myMapOnDisk myNewMapOnDisk

will find all occurrences of myMapOnDisk and replace then with myNewMapOnDisk

read the help
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thanks
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Nice, this saves a lot of tedious work.
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Amazing! and a great link with some simple explination usage: https://www.jamesrobinsonvfx.com/tips/workflow/2021/03/26/opchange/ [www.jamesrobinsonvfx.com]
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