Has anyone come up with a solution on why the red circle with question mark inside appears.

Has a solution been brought

Could the problem be that you're trying to make a template that includes assignments and placeholder frames? Because that won't work ... sorry, would be nice if it could.
You will get a missing assignment icon if you move the InDesign file, duplicate it, or rename it via a Save As. That's because assignments are actually attributes of the original file -- they are NOT linked -- and they don't stick with it when the original file is modified (other than normal "Save's"). The time to create assignments is when the live "final" file (even if it's filled with empty frames) has been created for that specific publication/issue, and it will not be moved or renamed during the production cycle.
So if you're doing what I'm guessing ... if you start w/an InDesign file, create assignments and assign empty text frames, and save that as a template ... then you will always end up with "missing" assignments. That's because a template file, when double-clicked, creates an Untitled copy of itself.
"I am getting the missing link for the assignments after they are finished." If an assignment -- an ICMA file, not the linked stories, the ICML files -- shows the red "missing" icons in the assignments panel, the only solution is to recreate them. They are not linked to the layout so there is nothing to relink.
The fix is to select each missign Assignment in the Assignments panel and choose Change Location. It's a bizarre name for the actual function which is to "recreate the Assignment." Be careful of the linked ICML files that go along with that layout (and those assignments).
You will also run into problems if you try to re-use the same linked ICML files for multiple issues. Best to start with a "normal" INDD file, then export Assignments/linked stories for that one issue. When you're done, unlink all the stories and delete the Assignments, turning it back into a normal INDD file. That normal file is safe to duplicate and use as a starting point for the next issue.
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I have my friends MacBook Pro here. When I turn it on I see a flashing folder with a question mark inside of it along with a strange ticking noise. I have tried pretty much everything I could find about it on the net so I have come here to see if anyone of you could help me
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- pulled out the hard drive and RAM sticks and put them back in.
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One thing that isn't clear from your post is whether the computer simply flashed up the folder with a ? momentarily and then proceeded to boot, or whther it never moved beyond that point. The following presumes that the problem was of the latter kind.
If so, it sounds to me as if you probably have a dead hard drive, or corrupted boot blocks, etc, and there is probably very little you can do without the necessary OS discs, forndog.
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Rod

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