ReLinking to multiple sub-folders?

erickp

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This topic has 7 replies, 6 voices, and was last updated 7 years, 3 months ago by Sarah O’Gorman.

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- June 20, 2013 at 6:17 am #33990
  
  erickp
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  Here’s the quick background story…. Just finished a 100 page product catalog and then Packaged it for archive purposes. For what ever reason, (probably insanity) I accidentally saved the archived .indd file over the original .indd file. So all the links in this archived version are directed to the “links” folder as it should be, but so is the original .indd file now.
  
  I’m looking to relink all the images to their original paths and when you get a group of images in one folder then it’s great, all of them link up (when you have “Search for missing links in this folder” checked. The issue comes when I have multiple sub-folders. I would love it if InDesign can search ALL subfolders for those missing files. For example, I know all or most of the products are in one main folder but there are many sub-folders with in this one. Broken down by Vendor name and product series. If it were able to see all the sub-folders it would most likely find that missing link. Does anyone know of a way to accomplish this, with either a plug-in or script?
  
  Any help would be appreciated. Thx!
- June 21, 2013 at 7:57 am #34011
  
  erickp
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  Is this an issue anyone else has encounter? Seems to be no takers on this one. Bummer.
- June 21, 2013 at 9:03 am #34013
  
  David Blatner
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  No, sorry.
  - June 21, 2013 at 9:37 am #34014
    
    erickp
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    Thanks for a response, David.
    
    You know what drives me crazy, is that when you go to relink your files you can do a search for a file name and show results BUT yet they can’t seem to do that for all the missing links. Doesn’t make sense. Oh well.
- July 10, 2013 at 9:03 pm #34219
  
  Kelly Vaughn
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  Try this: https://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2011/01/indesign-absolute-vs-relative-links.html
  
  I haven’t tried it with the exact method that you describe (with linking to multiple subfolders), but I suspect that this will work.
- July 12, 2013 at 2:51 pm #34235
  
  Justin Sligh
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  I have seen the post that Kelly recommended. It appears to relate to InDesign Books and not necessarily to individual files.
  
  InDesign does store the location of linked and embedded media; however your media points toward the Links folder.
  
  You didn’t happen to beef up your package manifest file with the original link locations? Mike Rankin provided a fantastic tip in his Lynda.com video titled Creating Long Documents with InDesign. He recommends that prior to creating the package:
  1. You open the package dialog, click Report, and save the file (This file would include the original linked media paths).
  2. Create your package and then open up both the package manifest and the previously saved report.
  3. Cut and paste the entire Links and images section from your report into your package manifest.
  
  This ensures that you have the original location to these files. Having the full path has proved useful in locating who may hold the original.
  
  If you did do this, you can export your InDesign file as IDML and swap the paths out using a script. Unless you have thousands of linked items, I would assume the trouble it would take to work on the script would be more than individually addressing the relinking.
  
  If the stars aligned and you did happen to save that incredibly useful piece of information, I will try to help you with a solution.
- December 13, 2015 at 11:03 pm #80152
  
  David Morgan
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  I wrote a script for this. It asks you to point to a top level folder and it searches all subfolders inside it.
  
  Indesign Image Relinker
  - January 4, 2017 at 5:23 am #90962
    
    Sarah O’Gorman
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    David – I stumbled across this post this morning from a Google search as I was having the same issue as the OP. I downloaded your script and I joined this forum just to be able to say thank you – it has saved me so much time and effort. Really can’t thank you enough!
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