# Broken link files
**URL:** https://discourse.jabref.org/t/broken-link-files/3783
**Category:** Help
**Tags:** linked-files
**Created:** [April 16, 2023, 3:35am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/broken-link-files/3783 "2023-04-16T03:35:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@melTr](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/melTr)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2023, 3:35am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/broken-link-files/3783/1 "2023-04-16T03:35:21Z")
Hi,
I’m running Jabref 5.9.
I changed my bibkey pattern and files have to be re-linked.
I was wondering why broken links are still showing. They are written as “not found” in orange but how I can suppress those links in batch? Using F7 found (some) of the “new” files but old links are never cleaned up.
Thanks
Mel
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### Author:  [@ThiloteE](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/ThiloteE)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2023, 9:30am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/broken-link-files/3783/2 "2023-04-16T09:30:23Z")
Hello Melanie 🙂
One option would be to use `Edit > Automatic field editor`. Choose the `file` field and `clear content`. Afterwards, link all files via F7 again.
Before you do so, I would suggest to make a backup of your library though.
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### Author:  [@melTr](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/melTr)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2023, 1:31am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/broken-link-files/3783/3 "2023-04-17T01:31:34Z")
Thanks.
It works. Not that intuitive, though 🤔
Works for this use case since everything is automatically linked and didn’t have manual linking I would not have wanted to erase.
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### Author:  [@koppor](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/koppor)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2025, 10:06am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/broken-link-files/3783/4 "2025-03-12T10:06:16Z")
JabRef has a cleanup feature for it:
@melTr Would it be possible for you to include a description of it at [user-documentation/en/finding-sorting-and-cleaning-entries/cleanupentries.md at main · JabRef/user-documentation · GitHub](https://github.com/JabRef/user-documentation/blob/main/en/finding-sorting-and-cleaning-entries/cleanupentries.md) ?