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• • November 26, 2024 at 8:57 am #14409001
    Marc Dunker

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    Has anyone else experienced links not automatically updating and having to manually update links from the links panel?

    Throughout my career, My usual workflow has been to select assets in InDesign and choose edit original, make changes, save the asset, and it would be updated in InDesign. I’ve noticed that in 2025 that it’s no longer doing that.

    My OS is Windows 10.

  • November 26, 2024 at 9:03 am #14409002
    David

    Member

    You didn’t mention this, so forgive me for suggesting the obvious thing — but if it’s a large file (Photoshop with lots of layers, for example), you have to wait until it’s completely done saving before switching over to InDesign to see it updated there … and yes, there sometimes seems to be an “impatience” on the part of InDesign for not wanting to cooperate with updating links retroactively (for lack of a different way of putting it); I’ve been dealing with this for years. My two cents, but I’m no InDesign guru.

    • November 26, 2024 at 10:04 am #14409003
      Marc Dunker

      Member

      Anything’s appreciated. In my workflow, I save and close the file before going back to InDesign. The PSDs I’m editing aren’t very large that I can tell. 20-35MB.

  • November 26, 2024 at 11:13 am #14409005
    Marc Dunker

    Member

    I created a sample document with both a PSD and an AI link and updated and saved both of them, closed the files, and the links didn’t update in a fresh .indd file for either file type.

  • November 26, 2024 at 12:20 pm #14409008
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Yes, I have had that happen, Marc. But it’s inconsistent. Today edit original seems to be working (updating automatically) just fine. It maybe an operating system thing… like the computer may need to be restarted?

  • November 27, 2024 at 12:03 pm #14409031
    Mike Rankin

    Keymaster

    I’ve noticed that too in InDesign 2025. Along with assorted badness like crashes during spell check and Pages panel thumbnails not updating to match changes in the document pages.

  • December 2, 2024 at 1:48 pm #14409262
    Robert

    Member

    I have this issue all the time–I think it is a longstanding but inconsistent bug. Sometimes InDesign will update a link….and sometimes it won’t. I’ve never noticed any pattern. I do InDesign training at my company and was showing off how this feature should work (and did work while I was doing a dry run) only to have it not work just a few hours later while presenting.

  • December 5, 2024 at 5:29 am #14409385
    Marc Dunker

    Member

    Thank you for all the replies! I have restarted several times.

    I’ve never noticed this until InDesign 2025, so I did create a uservoice to report the bug.

    To me it defeats the purpose of editing the original from InDesign. If they’re not going to update, it’s easier to close the document, make edits, then open the document rely on the pop up to update modified links. The issue is you don’t always know what needs update until you’re in your layout.

    https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/49146932-links-not-auto-updating-when-modified-in-indesign

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