Update to Emission Module for Particle System (Unity 5.2 -> 5.5)

We just recently updated to Unity 5.5 from 5.2. We had to hold off of moving to 5.3 and forward because once IPv6 was introduced we had some other issues that delayed updating.

Newer versions past 5.2 have changed how particle emission is animated.

Particle System.Emission Module.rate.scalar is now deprecated.

In it's place there is a system for Over Time and Over Distance.

So I know there is a grand wealth of information related to the change in regards to code... Which is easy enough to do, however I'm looking at legacy animations.

Particle System.Emission Module.rate.scalar is now (Missing!).

Currently I have to go through hundreds (Not kidding, hundreds) of animations and add the property for "Particle System.Emission Module.rate Over Time.scalar" and manually input several different particle systems emission rates at each key frame where it was rate.scalar before.

Why these don't update like code does when things are deprecated is beyond me. It has created quite a chore. I'll look at a way to automate the changes... but that in itself creates overhead to complete the task when I'm hoping there is an easier solution.

Thanks for any input!