Relink same image place in multiple INDDs

Scott Falkner

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- March 26, 2015 at 4:33 pm #74190
  
  Scott Falkner
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  A friend wants to relink a logo used throughout a book. There are maybe a hundred files, so a hundred instances of the image. He wants to know if there is a way to relink all of them at once. He wants to relink to the same file but in a different location (local vs networked). All I have is to package the book, but that will relink all images, and not to the location he wants.
  
  Perhaps there is a script of plug-in for this. I am poo at scripting.
- March 27, 2015 at 1:37 am #74192
  
  Niels JÌürgen Pedersen
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  No, if the same file (same file, same location) is placed multiple times, they appear as a group in the links-panel. Simply mark the group, and replace dem all in one single moove.
  Make sure that the file you replace with, has the same size – then you can update everything without doing more :o)
- March 27, 2015 at 5:06 am #74197
  
  Sonu Yadav
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  Simply Click in “Link Panel” then Option (Triangle in Right of Link Panel) then Click Relink to Folder option and give location of file
  
  Cheers!
- March 27, 2015 at 9:07 am #74202
  
  Scott Falkner
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  Sonu, your suggestion is how to relink one file. He and I know how to do that. We are looking for a way to automate relinling the same image in about 100 InDesign files.
- April 2, 2015 at 6:56 pm #74350
  
  Alan Gilbertson
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  You have a single image file that is linked to multiple documents. The most straightforward way to accomplish relinking it would be to move the old logo to some other location, then copy the new logo file into the old location and rename it so it has the same name as the old one.
  
  Open all the book documents and click “update links” as each one opens. Not much you can do about that part.
- April 3, 2015 at 5:08 am #74354
  
  Anne-Marie Concepcion
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  Alan: Clever!
- April 3, 2015 at 7:19 am #74363
  
  Scott Falkner
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  Alan,
  
  No, that’t not the issue as I understand it. He wants to relink to, I think, the same file but in another location this for a hundred InDesign files all in the same book.
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