[Keith Lee]

Hi,

I do not do this very often, but I swear every time I need to do it, I cannot figure out the process… to me it’s not very intuitive. I need to search and replace a folder of scene files that point to a xref material library. I want to change the name of the library using the search and replace function. The problem is, I cannot figure out how to tell Project Manager to process the folder of files. When I turn on Search&Relink and Find&Replace, and fill out the needed fields, it does not work. And if I have an empty untitled scene, it wants me to save it first. What is wrong here?

Plugin version: 3.35.85
3ds Max version: 2024.2
Renderer: vray

[Oleksandr Kramer]

Hi
As I understand, you want to rename a material library file?

[Keith Lee]

Hi,

Not really. It’s really an xref object file that has xref materials within it. For example, the xref object file is named “materials.max”, and I want to rename all references to it in a folder containing 3ds max files to “materials-2024.max”.

[Oleksandr Kramer]

You can do this on from the next methods
1) Just rename xRef files

• Open a scene with xRef-files
• Select xRef file and Rename it using the menu-item “Rename Link&File”



2) Rename xRef files using Mass-Rename Tool

• If the scene contains a few xRef files, you can also use Advanced Asset Rename tool
• Select xRef files
• Open Advanced Asset Rename tool using F2 or from menu Tools => Mass-Rename Tool
• Check Rename on Drive
• Print “materials.max” to Find field and  “materials-2024.max” to Replace field
• Press Apply button



3) Rename using Batch Relink tool (shipped with Project Manager)

• Add files that contain xRef scenes
• Turn on the option “Find&Replace”
• Print “\materials.max” to Find field and  “\materials-2024.max” to Replace field (I recommend to use slash before filename)
• Press START button
• Please note that this function doesn`t rename xRef files on drive, and you should do this manually



[Resolved]

[Keith Lee]

Thank you! Bookmarking this one.