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• • October 31, 2017 at 12:13 pm #99316
    Anonymous

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    I have 15 G of art files that I have linked to lots of different InDesign Files. My dilemma is that I need to clean up the art files but am having trouble identifying which ones I am still using. The art files are dated from as far back as 2006. My IT guy tried deleting the old files and I was instantly getting lots of missing links. Is there a way to update the date on the linked art files when I update the InDesign file? I need to be able to weed out the ones that I am still using so that I can delete the obsolete ones, but right now I can’t tell the difference. Help!! and Thanks!!!!

  • October 31, 2017 at 3:22 pm #99321
    Dwayne Harris

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    I don’t think there is an easy way; except doing manually (i.e.,checking dates in your links palette and the dates in your art folder).

    As an aside-how are your art folders set up? Where I work, every individual job has a separate folder with subfolders for fonts, art, the ID files, etc.) And any old art we put in a separate folder and we keep it just in case.

    I hope your IT guy duplicated that old art into a folder before the deleted them.

  • November 8, 2017 at 10:44 am #99458
    Anonymous

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    I have one directory where I store all of my customer art and another directory for logos. We need to weed out the art we are no longer using, but when my IT guy started deleting the old stuff – my links started to fail. Basically I need to know which files in these directories still have an active link associated with them.

    I was hoping that there was a way to change the date on the linked file when I save the indesign file. Then eventually the art and logo files with old dates would be the obsolete files and could be deleted. It could take a year of 2 to update all of the links, but at least I would be making progress in the managing my old art.

    I had the old art on a backup – so we were lucky there!

    Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!!!

  • November 9, 2017 at 3:49 am #99474
    Chris Thompson

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    I’d ask why you need to delete them. Storage is cheap.

  • November 9, 2017 at 11:00 am #99482
    suzerp

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    The only way I can figure to do this would be to methodically open each InDesign files and package them, which would copy the links to a links folder within each package folder. If you want to keep the filing system the way you have it, you’d then take each “links” folder from the packaged files and dump them all together (or two folders – one for art and the other for logos?). When you have gone through every file this way, you’ll have all the copied all the links and logos you use, and you could replace the current links and logos folders with your new ones.

    This doesn’t sound like much fun though.

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