How do data migration experts prevent data loss from broken links during migrations or file-system reorganizations?
LinkFixer Advanced automatically fixes broken links and preserves working links when files and folders are renamed or migrated, including between platforms such as local file shares, SharePoint, Egnyte, OneDrive, Box and others.
As the only commercially available solution that can pre-protect links before migration, LinkFixer Advanced automates the management of up to millions of links, reducing downtime and helping prevent data loss.
It supports server refreshes, all the world’s most common file types and disaster recovery to repair existing broken links.
We can’t promise to handle all the risks of a migration, but we can certainly handle one major one, with a modern-day solution that protects your links in advance, so you don’t have to spend hundreds or thousands of hours fixing broken links to restore missing data.
For more information, keep reading!
Are you doing a data migration, a server refresh, a file-system restructure or any other project that involves moving or renaming files, some of which contain links to other files?
Or do you already have a bazillion broken links?
If so…
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Now you can complete a major data migration without any worries about file links.
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SharePoint
What Microsoft Doesn’t Tell You About SharePoint Migration File Damage
SharePoint: Cloud or On-Premises
Data migrations to or from SharePoint® almost always break file links at scale, resulting in missing data, workflow disruption and costly remediation, with Excel® files particularly vulnerable.
LinkFixer Advanced™ proactively protects links before migration, automating the preservation and repair of links in batch to reduce risk and downtime, while maintaining data integrity and avoiding weeks of post-migration cleanup.
Already migrated to SharePoint and facing broken links across your tenant, sites, document libraries, or Excel workbooks? LinkFixer Advanced can repair them in batch and help restore access to the data your users rely on.
Get the Free TrialMicrosoft 365
Migrating to Microsoft® 365 means moving data into a connected cloud ecosystem where links often span SharePoint® sites, OneDrive® accounts, Teams workspaces and Office files — so even small path changes can break links at scale, disrupt collaboration and leave users searching for missing data.
LinkFixer Advanced™ automatically protects and repairs file links before, during and after migration to help keep your Microsoft 365 data connected and accessible.
Get the Free TrialOneDrive
OneDrive® migrations and reorganizations often involve user folders, synced files and shared Office content — exactly where broken links can disrupt access to critical data.
LinkFixer Advanced™ protects and repairs those links in batch, helping preserve access as OneDrive files are moved, renamed or restructured.
Get the Free TrialFile System Restructure
File system reorganizations often involve renaming folders, moving shared drives, consolidating servers or restructuring departmental content — all of which can break embedded links and disrupt access to critical data.
LinkFixer Advanced™ protects and repairs links through these changes, helping keep files connected even as paths, folders and storage locations change.
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Box
When Box® folders, shared content or collaboration workspaces are moved, renamed or restructured, embedded links break and disrupt access to critical files.
LinkFixer Advanced™ protects and repairs those links in batch, helping keep Box content connected through migrations and reorganizations.
Get the Free TrialEgnyte
LinkFixer Advanced™ preserves and repairs file links during Egnyte® migrations and folder restructures, helping maintain data integrity and minimize disruption.
The software can repair thousands of broken links in bulk, supports jobs up to 12 TB, handles both path-based and ID-based deep links, and leverages multiple accounts to optimize processing within Egnyte API limits.
It also supports flexible authentication, shared and private folder navigation, and version history preservation for easier tracking and recovery.
Get the Free TrialDropbox
When Dropbox® team folders, shared files or synced local folders are moved, renamed or restructured, embedded links can break and disrupt access to critical data.
LinkFixer Advanced™ repairs those links in batch, helping keep Dropbox content connected through migrations and reorganizations.
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Moving data to Windows SMB targets hosted on AWS® can change storage locations, file paths and shared access points across S3, EFS, FSx or cloud-based file servers — breaking links that users and business processes rely on.
LinkFixer Advanced™ protects and repairs those links in batch, helping preserve data access throughout AWS migrations and cloud storage reorganizations.
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Azure
Moving data to Windows SMB targets hosted on Azure® can change storage locations, file paths and shared access points across Azure Files, Blob Storage, Azure NetApp Files or cloud-based file shares — breaking links that users and business processes rely on.
LinkFixer Advanced™ protects and repairs those links in batch, helping preserve data access throughout Azure migrations and cloud storage reorganizations.
Get the Free TrialServer Refreshes or Upgrades
(What your hardware rep won’t tell you.)
New hardware may improve performance, but server name changes, mapped drive updates and modified UNC paths can break links across thousands of files.
LinkFixer Advanced™ protects and repairs those links in batch, helping keep data accessible throughout server refreshes and upgrades.
Get the Free TrialOther Cloud Platforms
Private, public and hybrid cloud migrations often involve moving files between legacy servers, cloud storage platforms, virtual file shares and multi-cloud environments — changes that can alter paths, break embedded links and disrupt access to business-critical data.
LinkFixer Advanced™ automatically repairs file links before, during and after cloud migrations or reorganizations, helping keep linked data connected across platforms, storage locations and hybrid environments.
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What Microsoft Doesn’t Tell You
About SharePoint Migration File Damage
Almost nobody mentions that an estimated 40% of migrations result in some form of missing data due to broken links. In the case of Excel® files, that estimate rises to about 50%.
Excel files contain what? Your most important and sensitive financial information.
You’re currently visiting the website of the software that can protect links before a migration.
Under the Hood: Features and Specs
That Make IT Managers Look Like Geniuses
Click on each tab below to dig into more about what LinkFixer Advanced can do for you.
Benefits for You
Note: For more details on what it can do, click on the capabilities tab.
Capabilities
LinkFixer Advanced can do the following on thousands of files at a time…
Supported File Types
The Inoculate and Cure processes support all the file types listed below. The Move/Rename and Modify Links processes can be run on just about any modern file type you can think of.
| File Type | Extensions Supported |
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Adobe Acrobat
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Adobe InDesign
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idml, indd, indt |
Adobe PageMaker
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p65, pm, pm6, pmd, pmt, pt6, t65 |
Autodesk AutoCAD
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dwg, dwt, dxf |
Autodesk Revit
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rfa, rft, rte, rvt |
Bentley MicroStation
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dgn |
Hypertext Markup Language
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htm, html, mht, mhtml, shtml, ssi |
CSS
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css |
JavaScript
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js |
Macromedia Flash
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swf |
Microsoft Access
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accdb, accde, accdr, accdt, ade, adn, adp, mda, mdb, mde, mdn, mdt |
Microsoft Active Server Pages
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asp, aspx |
Microsoft Excel
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xlam, xls, xlsb, xlsm, xlsx, xlt, xltm, xltx |
Microsoft OneNote
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one |
Microsoft PowerPoint
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pot, potm, potx, ppam, pps, ppsm, ppsx, ppt, pptm, pptx |
Microsoft Project
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mpp |
Microsoft Visio
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vdx, vsd, vsdx |
Microsoft Word
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doc, docm, docx, dot, dotm, dotx |
SharePoint Pages and Lists
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aspx |
Windows shortcuts
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lnk |
Reports
What in the World Have Your Users Been Up To?
LinkFixer Advanced scans whatever system you point it to and generates three reports — each one covering the situation in your system from a different angle, giving you a complete understanding of what your users have been up to (at least as it regards files and links).
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John Deere
The tool worked wonderfully for our project, and I highly recommend it to anyone who was in our situation, moving from a file share structure to DFS. Everyone on your team who I worked with was very professional and courteous.
Aux Sable Liquid Products, Morris, Illinois
Thank you for helping me salvage several years' worth of work! I now feel like broken links are a thing of the past. Thanks again for your great product and for the awesome support you provide.
Programmer/Analyst
Grant County Public Utility District
LinkFixer is a great piece of software. LinkFixer has answered the needs of many by simplifying the management of document links across a wide variety of different software applications. Good job!
Masterfoods USA
We used the LinkFixer software to help us complete our document migration project. During the project, LinkTek provided superb support for our project requirements. We were able to talk to live support personnel in minutes and get quick responses. LinkFixer was the unique software on the market that would resolve our problem.
Computer Systems Analyst
Northrop Grumman
These are just a few of hundreds of testimonials that you might find useful.
Would a Brain Surgeon Run the Hospital Record-Keeping?
Neither should you.
Do you hate the fact that restoring missing data often includes spending many hours working with a search & replace tool?
What’s your time worth to you?
Seriously, who ever heard of an underworked, overstaffed IT department with nothing to do? Nobody, that’s who. Throw in a data migration and …
LinkFixer Advanced cannot handle every cause of missing data you will run into. But it is the modern application to handle the most prevalent cause of such problems — broken file links.
You have enough problems already. Let LinkFixer Advanced handle one of the most damaging for you.
Let LinkFixer Advanced Safeguard Your Links Before Your Migration
Stop fixing links. (You read that right.) Don’t buy or write a “search and replace” script to fix links. The modern way is to have LinkFixer Advanced set up your links so that you can do all the migrating, renaming and file-system restructuring you want, using whatever programs you like, with total impunity.
How? ... Watch the video.
LinkFixer Advanced Video 1:
Alternatively, let LinkFixer Advanced Handle Your Migration
One way you could use LinkFixer Advanced is to have it move and rename your files and folders. The magic here is that it can do this while automatically maintaining all your good links in the process. Watch the video.
LinkFixer Advanced Video 2:
Uh Oh! Do You Already Have a Ton of Broken Links?
Okay, so you didn’t find out about us in time to safeguard your links before your project, and now you’ve got thousands or millions of broken ones. You can relax because LinkFixer Advanced can fix them faster than any other method on planet Earth. Think of this as Disaster Recovery Mode. Watch the video.
LinkFixer Advanced Video 3:
Links Fixed
Estimated number of links fixed by LinkFixer Advanced across all data migration projects worldwide.
Way Beyond Tech Support
A Few Words from LinkTek’s COO:
We don’t provide just customer service. Our culture is to go way beyond that. When you own LinkFixer Advanced, you get Customer Co-conspirators in handling everything to do with your file links. (I just made up that term while writing this. Hmmm… Should I change their official titles?)
What do you do when the clock is ticking, the deadline is closing in, and your data migration (or file-system reorg) is screwed due to links? If you own LinkFixer Advanced, you usually don’t need any help at all. But if you do, you reach out to LinkTek and ask your support co-conspirator for help.
For example, take the tale of a real estate company, specializing in the rental of tens of thousands of homes, who found themselves in deep water. Toward the end of their migration, they realized they had a huge problem: Their cutover was set in stone for 8:00 a.m. on Monday and all their links were broken during the migration. Oh, and it was Sunday afternoon. What did they do?
They own LinkFixer Advanced, so their Project Lead contacted LinkTek for assistance with some advanced settings.
Their Customer Co-Conspirator, Eugene, explains what happened:
“I assisted the Project Lead in setting up their resources and in utilizing LinkFixer Advanced’s exceptional technology to auto-fix their links in batch. By 8:00 a.m. on Monday, the department’s links were repaired, enabling them to resume operations, seamlessly using their files from their new location.”
A recent client with over 40 years of experience in the IT industry commented on our customer service and tech support:
“I've been an IT guy for over 4 decades and have not seen the service you provide for a long time. Customer support is phenomenal, above and beyond what I was expecting, and I loved working with Stephen and Eugene. Our migration was completed and successful.”
Whether you want to protect your links before a migration or need to repair links after one, you deserve reliable, sincere service that assists you in getting the job done. With LinkFixer Advanced, you get much more than that.
Ed Clark
COO
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"I don’t always do data migrations, but when I do, it’s with my feet on my desk and LinkFixer Advanced on my servers."
Who Else Has Been Fixing Links in Hundreds of File Type Permutations for Almost a Quarter of a Century?
When entrusting the safety of your valuable linked data to someone else, you want a company that has done this work with brain surgery–like precision for decades in billions of files.
A lack of experience in this exact niche risks subtle damage to your data.
We sidestep landmines all day long that can result in lost data, unopenable files, hidden file corruption and end-user frustration. Such errors can go unnoticed until they one day rear their ugly little heads and “byte” you in the backside.
We’ve fixed broken links in common Windows file types for almost a quarter of a century.
We have a proven track record of opening, handling and safely making the correct changes to billions of files.
We’ve spent tens of thousands of software engineering man-hours analyzing every type of unique file-format situation imaginable.
We understand — and have a solution for — the zillions of ugly little anomalies that can reside in your files.
LinkFixer Advanced is the only tool on the planet that can protect your links before a data migration or any other project where you are moving or renaming files, folders or drives.
LinkFixer Advanced is the world's fastest fixer of broken links.
LinkFixer Advanced Maintenance Plus is not just tech support. It's your team of co‑conspirators.
LinkTek’s premium software, LinkFixer Advanced, can safely usher your data through your next migration, whether you're moving to SharePoint or anywhere else. Get the free trial, and discover the truth for yourself.
Avoid a Links Disaster With LinkFixer Advanced
Data migrations usually result in thousands (sometimes millions) of broken links — the most prevalent and, therefore, most important type of data damage caused by migration. Broken links result in missing data. LinkFixer Advanced saves you time and your organization a ton of money by protecting your good links and automatically fixing your broken links for you.
To request a free trial version, click the red button that says “Get Your Free Trial”.
Feedback From a Client Helped by Customer Co-Conspirator Stephen:
“… I did not expect LinkFixer, or more correctly, Stephen [LinkTek Support Technician], to be able to create a rule that would find a file that was moved into a new subfolder. … Hundreds of man-hours to find and fix broken links will be saved.
Link Control = Peace of Mind
Experience unmatched confidence with LinkFixer Advanced by LinkTek, the company that invented link-repairing software and the industry leader in destroying the main culprit of missing data after a migration.
Our tool preserves and repairs links in bulk, preventing broken links before they happen. Protect, move or rename files without worry. Plus, LinkFixer Advanced provides ongoing protection for your linked data, ensuring your links stay intact, even as files are moved or renamed by unwitting users.
Don't Risk Your Reputation by Migrating to SharePoint Without Industrial-Strength Enterprise-Level Link Protection Software
You'll know the moment you start using LinkFixer Advanced that:
a) it is built from the ground up to support data migrations of any size — from small departmental migrations to massive, enterprise-wide data migrations — and is capable of simultaneously tracking millions of links and
b) your organization's files, and your hard-won reputation, are safe. Do not risk your ultra-valuable professional reputation by migrating to SharePoint — or anywhere else — without it.
Don’t Let Angry End-Users Run You Out of Town
How would you feel after a data migration if the service tickets started coming in so thick and fast that you’re buried up to your neck and the support guys are giving you the evil eye?
It’s even worse when angry users start showing up at your door, faces like thunder, yelling that the big bosses are freaking out about the data missing because of the broken links in their spreadsheets that they urgently need for that acquisition.
Before you’re tempted to quit and head for the hills, get hold of LinkFixer Advanced and calm the whole rotten mess down. You’ll be surprised at how fast and easy it is. And you’ll never do another migration without it.
Calculate the True Cost of Broken Links
Have you ever considered the true cost of broken links? This prevalent source of data damage can cause:
- Delayed migrations
- Rolled-back migrations
- Needing to re-do an entire migration
- Downtime for a portion of the company
- Missing information that results in wrong financial data
- Failed regulatory compliance
- High labor costs of manually repairing links with some search and replace script
Start assigning dollar values to these points and you’ll soon see that it’s simply not worth embarking on a data migration without being adequately armed. And that means having LinkFixer Advanced to solve every link-related problem caused by migration or file system reorganization.
Be a Hero to Your Throngs of End Users
Opportunities for heroism and chivalry don’t come knocking every day, but armed with LinkFixer Advanced, you can certainly be a hero to your end-users (and the bosses).
When you execute a data migration with zero data loss due to broken links, you may not have throngs of people lining the streets, tossing rose petals in your path, but a pat on the back from the boss, the offer of a raise, or that heart-stopping smile from the cutie in accounting says it all.
Get your cape ironed and ready!
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