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jazcol · #1 (**permalink**) 05-03-2006, 07:52 AM

Hi,
I've been asked to sort a problem we're having with CS2.
We're planning docs using servers and have discovered that if you change the name of the folder containing the links once you have planned the doc. CS2 does not mark the images as missing.

example:
images linked in this directory:
Raid1/job1/doc1/images
the links folder name is then changed:
Raid1/job1/doc1/links

When the doc is then printed through our workflows it is rejected because it can't find the images in the original directory.
Also when you re-open the failed doc and dble click on the link it stills shows the original directory and no alert to say it's missing!!!

Has anyone else had this problem and found a solution??

jimking · #2 (**permalink**) 05-03-2006, 08:07 AM

I have not seen this. Try rebooting your server and the computer that cs2 resides to see if it corrects this. Also you should be able to relink in the links pallet even though it says everything is ok. I know this is a pain.

seetomtype · #3 (**permalink**) 05-03-2006, 08:33 AM

Another thing you could try is quitting ID before renaming
the links folder, then restart it after the renaming has occured.
It might ask for an update then (sorry I don't have time to test
this right now :? ). It sounds like the problem may be that ID
isn't sending the right info to your rip. Unfortunately this is also
a PITA work around (if it works). I've never seen the problem
either, but I don't work my jobs over a network like you do.

BTW, welcome to the forum 8)

jazcol · #4 (**permalink**) 05-03-2006, 09:06 AM

Cheers Guys,

I've tried restarting the app, still no joy.
I've even tried opening the doc on a different mac.
Still the same.

Funny thing is, if you change the name of one of the images the menu the alert icon appears straight away!

I've grabbed the picture wrangler plugin, which helps relink.
But with 200 people on our network it's hard to enforce this manual procedure.

I was hoping there might be a bug fix or updater that i could download and install on all the machines when it's quiet.

I haven't given up hope yet.

Carla · #5 (**permalink**) 05-03-2006, 09:08 AM

Ok, guys, this might be a dumb question because our pp dept. (me too) is new to InDesign, but do they make a plug-in for InDesign that works like the Batch Update plug-in we used in Quark? Or is that unnecessary?

jimking · #6 (**permalink**) 05-03-2006, 09:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Carla

Ok, guys, this might be a dumb question because our pp dept. (me too) is new to InDesign, but do they make a plug-in for InDesign that works like the Batch Update plug-in we used in Quark? Or is that unnecessary?

I don't think it's needed. If you go to the link pallet and select all by shift clicking and find your art. Link to one and they all should be able to link to all. I have seen this not work as well on the network however.

David · #7 (**permalink**) 05-03-2006, 10:16 AM

jazcol,
No fix, but, I was able to duplicate your problem and I can't seem to find a way to get it to re-link to the new folder name. If you select the image and get info, it shows to be in the old folder name, but if you click on the "pencil" to edit the image it will open it in Photoshop from the newly named folder and if you do a "save as" in Photoshop it will put it in the new folder, as well.

So Weird!!

I would recommend renaming the folder before the file is built, or not at all.

tbJAMMIN · #8 (**permalink**) 05-03-2006, 08:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by david_maberry

I would recommend renaming the folder before the file is built, or not at all.

Right on!

Why would you not expect problems when you rename things that have been linked??? You should try troubleshooting this problem by figuring out how to not rename a folder full of very important files....because by renaming the folder that contains the files, you are essentially doing the same thing as physically renaming the actual files, which you definitely don't want to do.