Reply To: Modified Link error with InDesign files stored in Perforce

Hi Justin,

Thank you so much for taking the time to respond to my inquiry and for sharing your criteria for using linked vs. embedded files. What you said about Perforce changing the timestamp makes perfect sense. As our Perforce administrator is on vacation for three weeks, I?ll have to wait for his return before exploring any possible changes there.

In the meantime, I tried changing the InDesign preferences you pointed out. I did the following:

? Changed the Default Relink Folder preference to ?Original Link Folder.?
? Created a new document and ?Images? folder.
? Linked a couple images from the ?Images? folder.
? Checked it all into Perforce.
? My workmate also changed her InDesign preferences.
? She checked out the files, and still received the ?modified link? message.

I also tried packaging the document and checking in the packaged folder. Same result. What?s curious to us (and I didn?t make this clear in my original post) is that the error message only appears when one of us checks it in and the other checks it out. If I?m the only one working on the document, I don?t get the error (even though I check it in and out of Perforce multiple times).

Now that we’re more confident it?s just a timestamp issue, we?re not as concerned about it. However, it would be cleaner to work without error messages. We plan to speak with our Perforce administrator to see if we can make a change to the timestamp properties, as you suggested. If we make changes, I?ll post again to let you know how it worked.

Thank you again,

Teri