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• • April 27, 2014 at 2:51 pm #68130
    Anonymous

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    A newspaper we press in our shop is laid out in 2 different plants. Some pages are done in our plant, and others in another plant in another town nearby.
    The comp room in the other plant packages all the pages before the editorial is put in and sends us the packages – sans editorial.
    Editorial in our shop will run the copy into their copy of the pages – without the ads on them – and save those pages to our file server
    in a different location than the packaged pages sent earlier – the ones with the ads on them.
    I will come in the morning… open the editorial pages – they are missing the ads at this point – and with the Indesign preference set to “Check links… and Find Missing link” turned on, sometimes Indesign will find an ad or image with the same name that is the wrong file needed. Sometimes it’s in an entirely different location than with set of pages or packages.
    Sorry for the rambling length of this question.
    My question is:

    If indesign can’t find an image or ad in the “original” location or the “Most recent relink” location, does it ever search elsewhere on the drive for those files.
    Or… if I had once imported that image in days previous, does Indesign cache remember the name of the older file and find it even if that location is nowhere near the pages or packages?
    I have turned off “Check links before opening document” so it doesn’t happen again, but don’t like relinking manually.

  • April 28, 2014 at 4:51 am #68148
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    I just discovered that if I import an image nested deep in my hard drive into Indesign, and closed the document; then move that image to the desktop and reopen the document, Indesign finds the image all on its own on the desktop.
    So it appears Indesign does search for images.
    Then I did the same, but quit Indesign before moving the image, Indesign didn’t find the image.
    Would sure like to know all the ins & outs of Indesign linking.

  • April 28, 2014 at 6:14 am #68150
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    InDesign checks the folder the document is in first; then it will check to see if there’s a Links folder inside that folder. If it can’t find a link there, it will look (and this is the important part) in all the folders you have linked to recently!

    So if you did a Relink to an image that was sitting on your desktop, it will remember that you might have other images on the desktop.

    I believe if you quit InDesign and restart it, it clears its memory of previous folders, though.

  • April 29, 2014 at 5:13 am #68184
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Just thinking out loud here.
    When I open a document — and update the links while opening — and then save the document; is the reason anyone else who opens the document has to again update the links is:
    The file path of images has changed from my-computer-to-the-server to their-computer-to-the-server?
    Is there anyway that two different computers on a LAN can open the same document without ever having to update links – if no modifications have been made to the document?
    We have classified software that re-fits ads(imported pdfs)to their import box every time we update.
    If we didn’t have to update, that problem would go away.
    Sometimes we stretch ads to fit and sometimes we don’t.

  • April 29, 2014 at 11:27 am #68205
    Anonymous

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    David
    I have tried changing the link preference from “Original” to “Most recent” link folder and can see no difference.
    If I relink one image from one folder and try to relink another image from another, regardless of this setting, it always goes to the last used folder.
    Can you give me an explantion of the difference between these 2 settings when 1) opening a document and using auto relink and 2) When relinking from the link palette.

    Thank you
    Bob

  • April 30, 2014 at 11:49 am #68229
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Found a good link with an lengthy explanation
    https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/indesign-missing-link-relocation-method.html

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