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• • January 30, 2019 at 9:34 am #114030
    Peter McLennan

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    My recent project sourced images from all over my system – several drives, multiple directories. Is there a way for InDesign to use the contents of its links database to copy all those source images to a new directory?

    Thanks!

    Peter

  • January 31, 2019 at 4:42 am #114043
    Masood Ahmad

    Participant

    Yes there is!

    Open the Links Panel in InDesign by pressing Cmd/Ctrl, Shift, d.
    Select all the images in the panel.
    Right click on the selection and choose “Copy Link(s) To…”
    A window will pop-up asking you to select the folder where you want the linked files will be copied.

    That’s it.

    Or you can simply create a Package, which will ultimately copy all the links, fonts etc to a desired location.

  • January 31, 2019 at 9:55 am #114058
    Peter McLennan

    Member

    Fantastic! EXACTLY what I’d hoped for. Thanks, Massood!

  • January 31, 2019 at 10:07 am #114062
    Masood Ahmad

    Participant

    You’re welcome Peter.

  • January 31, 2019 at 9:02 pm #114072
    Peter McLennan

    Member

    Hmm. There is a side effect to using the “Links Panel” solution.

    All the links in the document are re-assigned to the new files in the new directory. All the original links appear to be gone. Not what I expected.

    Perhaps the “Package” solution would have been a better choice. Thanks for pointing it out to me.

    regards,
    Peter

  • February 1, 2019 at 11:07 am #114082
    Masood Ahmad

    Participant

    Well there’s a trick to avoid relinking the images to the desktop folder. Just close the InDesign file without saving.

    Try it and let me know of other issues you may encounter.

  • February 2, 2019 at 10:16 am #114105
    Peter McLennan

    Member

    Yes, that would work. I discovered this side effect too late. :)

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