Deleting all instances of a link

Question

Hi,
I have a lot of instances of a link spread over a number of pages and I want to delete all of them without having to go to each page, select each one and delete it. I thought there'd be a way using the links pallet such as right clicking the link group and "delete all" but there doens't seem to be.
The links don't have a specific object style applied so I can't (I think) use Find/Change Object.
Is there another way around this?
Thanks in advance.
(CS4 6.0.5)

Answer 1

This version removes frames.
if (app.documents.length == 0) ErrorExit("No documents are open. Please open a document and try again.", true);
var doc = app.activeDocument;
var links = doc.links;
if (app.selection.length != 1) ErrorExit("Select a graphic frame with image.", true);
var sel = app.selection[0];
if (sel.images.length != 1) ErrorExit("Selected graphic frame should contain an image.", true);
var selectedLink = sel.images[0].itemLink;
var selectedLinkPath = selectedLink.filePath + "";
if (selectedLink == null) ErrorExit("Selected item doesn't contain a link.", true);
var allInstances = [];
var counter = 0;
for (var j = 0; j < links.length; j++) {
     if (links[j].filePath == selectedLink.filePath) {
          allInstances.push(links[j]);
if (allInstances.length == 1) {
     if (!confirm("This link has only one instance. Do you want to delete it?", false, "Delete all instances of a link")) exit();
for (var i = allInstances.length-1; i >= 0; i--) {
     try {
          var link = allInstances[i];
          var image = link.parent;
          var frame = image.parent;
          frame.remove();
          counter++;
     catch(err) {
          $.writeln(i + " - " + err);
if (counter == 0) {
     alert("No links have been removed", "Delete all instances of a link");
else if (counter == 1) {
     alert("One clink has been removed", "Delete all instances of a link");
else if (counter > 1) {
     alert(counter  + " links have been removed", "Delete all instances of a link");
function ErrorExit(myMessage, myIcon) {
     alert(myMessage, "Error", myIcon);
     exit();