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• • November 7, 2024 at 12:21 pm #14408482
    David

    Member

    I’m working on a personal project (a family recipe book) and when I open the file, I get a dialog box informing me of missing links, and on the links panel I see several red question mark icons … but there’s nothing to really indicate what is actually missing — no file name or path, just some useless info at the bottom of the panel letting me know that whatever these things are they are JPEGs weighing in at 500K or something like that.

    Please see screenshot from this link: https://ws.onehub.com/files/e6bxoc4c

    Whatever missing files this is mapping to, it really doesn’t matter to me — they’re probably ghosts from an earlier edition of my cookbook, things I deleted from an art folder or something — but seeing the red question marks is distracting and I just wish to get rid of them. Problem is, I can’t seem to find a way to do this (i.e. there is no trash icon, no right-click “Delete Link” choice, etc.). Is there some article on CreativePro that addresses this?

    Thanks

    David Tice Allison

  • November 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm #14408532
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    If you want to delete the image, you can click the page number in the right column. That jumps to the page and selects the image. Then press the Delete key. But that will delete the image itself!
    We have a number of articles on “managing indesign links” such as:

    InDesign How-to Video: How to Manage Links

  • November 7, 2024 at 1:05 pm #14408533
    David

    Member

    I appreciate the reply, but that’s just it… There is no placed image to delete, and therefore no page number to click. In fact, Preflight shows that all is well and good with the file. All there is are “phantom” red question marks (for lack of a better way of putting it) in the links panel. They’re an annoyance; I want to get rid of them — I just can’t figure out how. Please check out the screenshot for a clearer idea of what I’m getting: https://ws.onehub.com/files/e6bxoc4c

  • November 7, 2024 at 11:33 pm #14408553
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Oh wow… well that’s not right. Perhaps try saving your file as an IDML and then opening that file. Does that clear it out?

  • November 8, 2024 at 1:39 am #14408555
    Mike Rankin

    Keymaster

    If the IDML trick doesn’t work you could try selecting them in the panel, relinking to some other file, and then deleting that from the layout.

  • November 8, 2024 at 5:43 am #14408588
    David

    Member

    Before David’s and Mike’s suggestions came through, I made a duplicate of the file and just started deleting pages, one stack at a time, to see if I could flush out the culprit … kinda like before the days of Mac OSX, when you had to turn extensions on and off to isolate the source of a problem. I deleted as much as I could, including as many Parent pages as was allowed by the program. No change.

    Next, I tried Mike’s trick. No change. But saving as an IDML and opening up it up again DID indeed clear out the red error icons, but I was unable to Save As the file back to an Indesign 2025 file — perhaps that’s par for the course when one saves to IDML? Attempting to save back to 2025, my screen just went into a hang. Fortunately, the file has no issues exporting to PDF, so unless this has really piqued your interest, I’m going to write it off as a corrupted InDesign file — sort of a digital of Lyme disease — and just live with it. Thanks, though, for your suggestions.

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