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• • January 12, 2012 at 11:15 am #61423
    karajsize

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    Can links that are rarely/never opened in their native program or physically moved/copied, become corrupted?

    I work on a quarterly magazine that has repeat ads from quarter to quarter. In fact, some of the ads have been running for years. I have the links to the ads on my hard drive so I don't have to pull them every time. I usually don't bother with them unless I absolutley need to move them (in InDesign or on my hard drive). All I have to do is check they are linked.

    I've had rare instances where the document was corrupted but exporting to IDML takes care of that. But I've never had a problem with the link file.

    I'm not having any problems. We just had a situation that turned out to be on our print provider's end. But it got me to wondering if something could happen to those files. Granted, I know not every problem can be anticipated, but if there were some preventative measures I could take, it would make not only me, but the Powers-That-Be, happy.

    Any thoughts/suggestions would be appreciated.

  • January 13, 2012 at 8:54 am #61437
    Rhiannon Miller

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    Yes, if the physical storage medium they're living on develops a hardware fault.

    https://alkiratech.tripod.com/j…..orruption/ has some examples of what image files look like when they're corrupted by hardware problems.

    Make sure you have at least two copies of anything you want to keep, on separate media if you can. For example, you might have one on your computer's hard disk, one on a backup drive, one on a CD-ROM, one on a flash drive… None of them will be perfectly reliable, but overall you will reduce the chances of all your copies developing corruption at once.

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