First, let me say that Jon is very bright with AC, and I like his idea. I just think it's a little risky at this point. Maybe, if we sort things out, it is possible.
I'm interested in learning about the solution you have in mind--which I hope doesn't involve going into each file and manually changing the item name.
There are two ways to do it. There would be to actually import each item from the wrong database from the folders that the imported items are in. Or you could move the files into the folders in the good AC ImportItems folder. One thing you should make a point of is not just leaving the name of a pdf, 00000001.pdf. When you import it, it allows you to name it.
Of course, if you just copy and past the files from 2233 to 2233 of the good folder, they will overwrite. Renaming all the bad 2233 files individually would be tedious. Microsoft, however, lets you name them all at once. At least with Word documents and pdf files. Say you had ten files in the 2233 folder in the non-used AC folder. You could simply highlight them all and rename the top one or any for that matter to Patient.pdf, it would change all ten or all 100 for that matter to Patient.pdf, Patient(1).pdf, etc. The word document would be Patient(1).doc. If you did it this way, you would have all of your scanned documents IF 2233 were the same patient (you should check first). At this point, none of those files would show up because they weren't imported via AC. You would have to go to Administrative Options, Tools, Imported Items: Repair missing items and links and run the maintenance tools. This should connect your patient to the corresponding imported items.
PM = Practice Management in some cases. I meant it as Private Message.
