Find Replace by List – Hangs
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Hello there,
I have to use Find Replace by List for replacing each and every character of my ID document.
The .txt file is quite big, which contains around 400 “text” type Fnd / Replace text. It works exactly as I want it to, for small ID files. We have more than 500 files of various sizes. The above script hangs for big files, say with 500 pages. I am sure, it hangs because of the number of pages. Is there any way to overcome this ?
Thanks in Advance.
Not that I know of. You’re at the mercy of the speed of your computer.
Haha. Thanks Harris for reading my posting.
I searched and found out the following…
The FindReplacebyList creates ‘undo’ for each Replace. Thus it takes up lots of time… And eventually the system hangs. This ‘undo’ can be controlled by ‘doScript’ with AutoUndo option.
Still trying to explore it. Yet to get full solution. Shall share once I get the result.
Thank you.
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