IT Tips & Tricks
The Albatross Inspiration: Forget About Fixing Broken Links
Published 27 April 2023
Updated 2 February 2026
Want your linked data to sail through a migration unharmed? Want your data to be immune to the vagaries of end-users who unknowingly move or rename files — and then complain to IT when data appears to go missing?
Most users simply don’t realize that moving or renaming files breaks the links pointing to them. When the inevitable happens, they turn to you — the IT guru — to clean up the mess.
Knowing how to fix broken links is one thing. Knowing how to protect links and prevent missing data in the first place is where it’s at.
As a network admin or IT professional, you know that data migrations, system reorganizations and end-user shenanigans often result in “missing” data, downtime and frustrated end-users flooding the IT department with complaints. Finding and fixing broken links to restore the missing data is time-consuming, expensive and frustrating for an already overworked IT team.
If your IT department sometimes feels like the complaints department, you need help!
If you’re looking for a one-stop solution to all of the above, perhaps you’re seeking the software equivalent of the wandering albatross.
Users turn to you — the IT guru — to clean up the mess.
Making Your Linked Data Impervious
The wandering albatross is the unsung long-distance hero of the skies. What other bird can fly up to 15,000 miles in a single month? Or complete a 10,000-mile non-stop flight? Or travel 1,000 miles without flapping its wings?
Over its lifetime, the wandering albatross can fly the equivalent of 18 round-trips to the moon. It can remain airborne for five or six years at a time — touching down only briefly to feed — and makes landfall just once every few years to breed.
We didn’t believe it either, so we checked.
So, what does this remarkable bird with a wingspan of up to 12 feet have to do with your data?
The wandering albatross has mastered the art of near-perpetual flight. These true nomads of the skies even sleep while airborne. (How handy is that?)
So, what does this remarkable bird with a 12-foot wingspan have to do with your data?
Think about it. Most birds require nests, flocks, frequent landings, breaks, constant flapping and seasonal migrations. In other words, birds are pretty high maintenance.
But the wandering albatross is immune to all of that. He simply sails serenely across the skies, inspiring ancient mariners and modern ornithologists alike.
Now imagine if your data were just as impervious.
Your data could silently soar and swoop for years without making landfall — held aloft by its massive, unbreakable links. You could migrate your data freely, wherever and whenever you want, without causing any data loss due to broken links.
End-users could move, rename and reorganize files to their hearts’ content and every link would remain blissfully intact.
Imagine never having to deal with broken-link-related data loss ever again.
How To Fix — or Even Better, Prevent — Broken Links
When it comes to broken links, you have two options.
Option One: Wait until after your data migration or system reorg, when the proverbial albatross poop has already hit the fan. Data is missing. Users are furious. At that point, you deploy LinkFixer Advanced to find and fix thousands — or even millions — of broken links, instantly restoring access to lost data. Problem solved.
You could migrate your data freely wherever and whenever you want, without causing any data loss due to broken links.
Option Two (the smarter, faster option): Install and run LinkFixer Advanced before your data migration. Any links that break during the migration are automatically repaired, preventing data loss before it ever occurs.
That means no downtime. No frantic search and repair projects. No disruption to the organization.
Run LinkFixer Advanced regularly — alongside your backups, for example — and file system restructures, system reorgs and end-user mischief will never again result in lost data due to broken links.
You’ll forever be free as a bird from that particular nuisance. Problem prevented.
Test Flight, Anyone?
Want to know what it’s like to fly without flapping your wings?
Call 727-442-1822 to discuss your situation with a helpful Service Consultant, chat with us online or visit LinkTek.com for more information or to request a free, no-credit-card-required trial.
Under-staffed and in need of assistance? LinkTek offers a consulting service to help you survive your migration with all your linked data intact.
With LinkFixer Advanced, you’ll never again have to “flap” about your linked data.
LinkTek: Why flap when you can soar?
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