Working between a central server and a desktop at my job, it’s often necessary to move around all the image files in a document, or put updated ones back onto the server.

A way to accomplish something similar to the above is the old “embed, unembed” trick: select all your links in the links palette; in the fly-out, select “Embed Links”— you’ll get a dialog asking “Are you sure you want to do this etc.”; click okay.

After the progress bar is done, reselect all your links and choose “Unembed…” from the fly-out; ID will prompt you, asking if you want to link back to the old files, or copy your links to a new location.

To copy to a new folder, select the somewhat cryptic “no” and you will be prompted for a “Save As…” location.

Anne-Marie: You touched on an important gotcha — Package leaves the original in place. In CS2 it was easy to forget that the Open Recent list now contains two identical entries that refer to different .indd files (the one in the package and the original). CS3 now inserts the full path, which helps a lot, but an “Update Existing Package” option in the Package dialog would still be very useful.

One significant difference between Package and Copy Links To is that the former ignores linked images on the pasteboard while Copy Links To does not. Copy Links To gives you all the links in your document while Package gives you only those that are needed to print the document.

Dave

What I’m writing about is a way to gather all the images in one spot without having to Package. Sometimes you need to do that, in the middle of production for example (way before you’re ready to send the file off), and this way is faster than using the Package command.