From the course: InDesign Secrets
181 The fastest way to find missing links - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
181 The fastest way to find missing links
- Has this ever happened to you? You open up an innocent document, like I'm opening up this project called San Francisco Magazine, you get this horrible dialogue box, "This document contains 17 links to sources that are missing." And I open this up and I look at the Links panel and there's all those horrible stop signs. So some are found, but some are missing. I wanna show you a really fast way to find these missing files, assuming they are somewhere on your hard drive or on a connected hard drive or on a connected network server. That you have them, in other words. You don't have to say, "Okay, 2607.jpg," and then jump over to the Finder or to Windows Explorer and start riffling through folders and sections of my hard drive looking for this file. Instead, we're just going to relink this guy. Ans you're like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I know all about relink, but normally you know about relink because you know where that file is, right? You're going to that actual folder and you're like, relink to this guy. But, you know, you can do that find and that relink in one step in your operating system. It's smoothest on the Macintosh, which is what I'm doing right here. We're gonna use this Find dialogue box up here. But Windows also has the ability to search in the Relink dialogue box. The search field is just tucked away in a corner of the Relink, so just keep an eye out for it. All you need to do is enter the file name in this Find field and let InDesign do the work for you. Even if you can't read the whole file name, sometimes this'll get truncated, you can just put in a partial name. So I'll put in 2607.jpg, and it's automatically doing a live search for names that match that. Please make sure to look at these options at the bottom. Show Import Options, turn that off because you're gonna go crazy cause we're going to keep this one turned on, Search for Missing Links in This Folder. Hopefully, whatever folder this item is in, there are other missing guys. And if we had Show Import Options turned on, we'd have to see that obnoxious Import Options dialogue box for each and every one. So don't worry about that, just turn on Search for Missing Links in This Folder. And this is the one that we want. Here's the folder. Ah, look, it's in the Stock Photos folder, that's interesting. Click Open, it found four. Didn't find 'em all, it found four of 'em. That's good to know. All you need to do is do that two or three times. Let's try this one. I'm gonna right-click on this and choose Relink. I can see it says extended here, extended1.jpg. There it is, select it, check my options, click Open. Did it find any more? Jackpot, 11 missing links, there you go. This is the fastest way to search for missing links, is simply to let InDesign do the work for you with the Relink dialogue box.
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229 Batch converting ID files to current version with the Book panel6m 9s
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230 Getting around InDesign limitations6m 46s
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231 Creating better callout lines with effects and object styles5m 47s
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232 Swapping column and row information in tables6m 9s
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233 Making bigger text link targets4m 52s
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161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items3m 55s
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162 Adding automatic currency symbols in a table cell or before text3m 50s
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163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook3m 48s
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164 Deleting tabs at the beginning of paragraphs and applying a paragraph style3m 10s
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165 Five InDesign Presentation tips6m 28s
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111 Packaging images on the pasteboard3m 32s
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112 Automatically updating figure references for books6m 9s
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113 Adding Tool Tips to your form fields in InDesign3m 21s
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114 Setting poetry, flush left, center on longest line3m 54s
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115 Use bookmarks to navigate long documents in production4m 57s
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107 Using the same keyboard shortcut for two different commands with the Context feature5m 22s
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108 Making a text highlighter3m 33s
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109 Updating an interactive PDF without losing work done in Acrobat5m 30s
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110 Adding custom text at the beginning of each line automatically4m
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089 Three great Object Styles for any designer8m 1s
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090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency2m 25s
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091 Adding and reading metadata for InDesign files3m 25s
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092 Adding ALT tags to your images6m 59s
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093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting7m 4s
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094 Setting the baseline position of a caption2m 39s
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051 Five things that should be in every new file5m 19s
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052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects6m 21s
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053 Understanding component information6m 39s
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054 Creating running heads using section markers4m 16s
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055 Making a font with InDesign using the IndyFont script5m 20s
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056 Finding where that color is used7m 17s
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047 Specifying an exact amount of space between objects5m 17s
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048 Fixing last lines that are too short8m 16s
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049 Creating web graphics from your InDesign artwork7m 20s
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050 Using “No Language” to suppress unwanted hyphenation, spell-checking, and smart quotes2m 48s
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037 Updating a linked table without losing formatting5m 18s
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038 Creating electronic sticky notes4m 49s
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039 Moving master page items to the top layer for visibility2m 48s
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040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers6m 18s
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041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics4m 21s
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042 Using single-cell table cells for custom paragraph formatting6m 2s
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027 Creating running heads using variables5m 1s
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028 Live Caption tips and tricks8m 3s
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029 Making professional drop caps10m 37s
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030 Making two-state buttons in interactive documents5m 5s
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031 Moving pages from one document to another3m 15s
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032 Wrapping bulleted text around a curve5m 58s
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007 Selecting through and into objects using cmd-click and Select Above/Below5m 46s
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008 Some great tips and tricks for the Swatches panel9m 40s
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009 Saving down for backward compatibility with INX and IDML5m 54s
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010 Using the INX and IDML formats to fix problems4m 46s
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