Can't link files back to my presentation

Question

I've create a presentation with over 200 slides.
As i've been saving the presentation it has create presentation.key Folder files which contained my images and videos.... it has done this 27 times :/ total file size 16gigs.
Now my presentation only contains placeholder images and the links to those files have been changes.
I have taken all the files (removed the duplicates) and put them all in the same folder.
folder/pres.key
folder/pres.key Folder
still no luck.
here is a sample from the index.apxl file (which I read is what you need to change)
le></sf:anon-styles><sf:parent-ref sfa:IDREF="SFSStylesheet-16"/></key:stylesheet><key:style-ref sfa:IDREF="BGSlideStyle-111"/><key:title-placeholder sfa:ID="BGTitlePlaceholderInfo-111"><sf:geometry sfa:ID="SFDAffineGeometry-733" sf:sizesLocked="true"><sf:naturalSize sfa:w="100" sfa:h="100"/><sf:size sfa:w="100" sfa:h="100"/><sf:position sfa:x="0" sfa:y="0"/></sf:geometry><sf:style><sf:placeholder-style-ref sfa:IDREF="BGPlaceholderStyle-445"/></sf:style><key:text sfa:ID="SFWPFrame-353" sf:layoutstyle="SFWPLayoutStyle-905"><sf:text-storage sfa:ID="SFWPStorage-353" sf:kind="textbox" sf:excl="G"><sf:stylesheet-ref sfa:IDREF="SFSStylesheet-114"/>
any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

I think I've experienced a similar issue.
- I created a movie with sounds and images
- I then found that keynote wouldn't move/copy objects if the file wasn't saved on my desktop
- I added sounds to the movie, moved it to the server and then found it had lost all links
- I then moved the file back to the desktop and moved my assets folder there too
- I couldn't figure out how to relink the files so I then imported a few files again from that folder, quit, reopened it and then found that the files worked again.
So, I think it's a case of you setting the files back to how they were, try importing a few of them again and see if keynote picks up the other files again.
I don't think the 16gb is really anything bad, it's seems that you're creating a new file each time you save so it's a simple case of duplication. Maybe check the file permissions to make sure Keynote can save over the file?