INDESIGN AND LINKED FILES FOR VERSIONNING

Hi Everyone,
Despite the fact Indesign is an amazing tool, i'm very frustrated about the way images links are managed, and especially when you copy a folder that contains indesign files linked to images.
When you want to make a new version of your files, by copying the original folder with all files, the copy of the original indesign file is still recognizing the linked images in the original folder and not the images in the new folder.
To force Indesign to check the path of the images in the new folder and to update links with the new images, the only way i found is to change the name of the original folder.
I get the same problem with an indesign book linked with many different individual indesign files.
i know there is a solution to package all images in the same folder, but this way will lot keep the structure of my folders and my files.
As relinking manually each file could be a nightmare, i wonder if someone know a solution to avoid this ?
Thanks a lot
Daté TETEGAN

Daté TETEGAN wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Despite the fact Indesign is an amazing tool, i'm very frustrated about the way images links are managed, and especially when you copy a folder that contains indesign files linked to images.
When you want to make a new version of your files, by copying the original folder with all files, the copy of the original indesign file is still recognizing the linked images in the original folder and not the images in the new folder.
This seems to me to be in direct opposition to what you just said. Either you want one central repository for your linked files where you keep single copies organized in some way that makes sense to your workflow, or you want individual copies of each linked file that is used only for that particular version. If you want only one linked file that is reused, you want any copied .indd file to continue to use the old path. If you want to modify linked files and have the modified files available only to the current version, packaging is a viable option.
It sounds to me like you would like ID to use relative links rather than absolute. That's not the way it works now, but you can make a feature request at Adobe - Feature Request/Bug Report Form

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