As my projects grow I sometimes need to reorg my assets. Easiest way to do that is drag them around in folder windows (in the OS, in my case, Windows).
But when I open up a file with a missing link, I get a error message, that’s it. If I try to fix the library link text in the outliner (ctrl-click), then save the file and reopen, the link is gone. I have to re-link from scratch. It seems like there is some kind of automatic cleanup going on that throws out broken links and all the information in the blend file associated with it, even if I correct it and save. (setting fake-user flag in the datablock view makes no difference)
Is there any hope for me? (sob) The state of the linking management stills seems somewhat primitive and I never really seem to hear about ‘exciting’ developments in this area