When I copy and paste a folder containing the CATproduct and all components (CATparts) and open the CATproduct from the copied folder, all the components are linked to the original folder

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Hello everyone,

How do I make the CATparts of the copied CATproduct the copied CATparts and not the original CATparts?

Thank you in advance.

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Hello
The best practice is to proceed from CATIA (not on Windows) by opening the CATproduct and then, my first choice 
1-    Tab " File / Records Management / (save as / directory propagation)".
2-    " File / send-to/directory" tab.
Now if you want to do it on Windows.
You can modify the CATIA Searche Order to force you to search for the link only in the directory.
 Tools / Options / General / Documents (Location of linked documents) 
There you can choose how CATIA looks for links when opening a CATProduct, a CATPart or a CATDrawings.
Link folder (this is the absolute path saved in the CATIA document during backup)
Honestly, I don't advise playing with it (we use it occasionally to solve opening PBs but that's all) then we put it back as before!

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