updating memory content that is within a sub-partition

Hi,

I currently have a pretty big design that is broken up into partitions. More specifically it is made of a TopLevel Quartus project along with 4 other projects which are imported as netlists (.qxp) whithin the TopLevel project.

In the TopLevel project I make use the Update MIF command to change the content of a memory without recompiling. This has been working for a memory whithin the TopLevel project.

My question is, once all the partitions netlists have been imported into the TopLevel project, is it possible to change the content of a memory contained within a partition without re-compiling both the partition and the TopLevel. i.e. by using the above command.

I did try the update mif command with the .hex file copied into the TopLevel project and added to the project file list, but no success.

Thanks a lot.