InDesign: Updating Shared Hyperlinks

What is the best approach to take for updating shared hyperlink URLs?
For example, if a document has many pages and there are various hyperlink lists within those pages, there are likely to be some shared URL destinations. If we need to update the URL to a specific destination - How do we make certain that all the shared destinations update? Or does each hyperlink have to be found and changed separately?

I got my answer thanks.
R

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This occurs on multiple Macs (running either Leopard or Snow Leopard) in our office. The links are connected to conditional text in InCopy. Here's the scenario:
1) Open the InDesign document and select the linked text.
2) Get a dialog box: "You must check out the contents of this frame in order to make changes. Check out now?" Click "Yes."
3) Copy the text of the link, right-click and select "New Hyperlink."
4) In the "New Hyperlink" window, paste in the text of the URL (leaving in the http://).
5) Uncheck "Shared Hyperlink Destination." InDesign immediately crashes.
I've been told by our designers that you have to uncheck "Shared Hyperlink Destination" to prevent changes to all of the other related links in the document. I don't work with InDesign on a regular basis and have very limited knowledge of InCopy. I tested the current version of InDesign (7.5.3) on my Mac and the same crash occurred.
Here is the first part of the crash report:
Process:         Adobe InDesign CS5.5 [6458]
Path: /Applications/Adobe InDesign CS5.5/Adobe InDesign CS5.5.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe InDesign CS5.5
Identifier: com.adobe.InDesign
Version: 7.5.2.318 (7520)
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [3125]
Interval Since Last Report:          4473638 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           38
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 2159305 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   15
Date/Time: 2012-05-03 12:29:26.452 -0700
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L31a)
Report Version: 6
Anonymous UUID: 14200E2C-6A0E-4571-B96F-268BF9F135D1
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 ...e.InDesign.Hyperlinks Panel      0x23929fa5 GetPlugIn + 117525
1 ...e.InDesign.Hyperlinks Panel      0x2392b103 GetPlugIn + 121971
2 ...e.InDesign.Hyperlinks Panel      0x2393f28a GetPlugIn + 204282
3 ...adobe.InDesign.AppFramework            0x19697e37 GetPlugIn + 45687
4 ...adobe.InDesign.AppFramework            0x196983f9 GetPlugIn + 47161
5 PublicLib.dylib                  0x01786b49 CSubject::Change(IDType<ClassID_tag>,

Thanks to you both. Excuse my ignorance - I presumed that 7.5.3 was a paid-for-upgrade to Creative Suite 6 (or higher?!)... I thought I had the Updater set to prompt me for updates, but I obviously didn't.
Anyhow - I've since run the updater, but the crash happens the same way. Here's the new crash report.
http://pastebin.com/JNvtTRbn
Hopefully there's something of use in this - I really don't want to have to manually do this: I have nearly 200 film titles that need to be listed in alphabetical order with their respective page number, and the TOC feature would be the perfect solution if it actually worked...
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Where I work, we've upgraded from CS1 to CS6.
We've created many newsletters in InDesign (40+ pages each; 1 per month) that have hyperlinks.
Working with the Hyperlinks and Hyperlink Destinations, while rather cumbersome before, was manageable.
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This process takes about 1 hour (or more) and effectively hangs InDesign for me. I can not cancel the process (that I've found yet); I can not close the palette before it's refreshed and processed every single Destination; I have to manually hit Esc or click cancel on every single Destination as it tries opening it if I wish to try short-circuiting the process (which means I'll still have to sit there for at least half an hour, since there's so much time between each dialog that pops up).
I'm not the one who generally works in the file doing all the design work; I'm the one who does the processing for creating the PDF for the web. I'm willing to understand and work with InDesign to a fuller extent of its capabilities, but the actual designers are generally as ignorant as they can get away with about InDesign's tools and innards.
They're the ones that work with and create the links (until there's a problem, then it's me); and getting them to clean up their methods or to at least only create "unshared" hyperlinks going forward is pretty much impossible.
If somebody doesn't know a way to get around this problem, then I have a request that an update to InDesign is implemented to accomplish any of several things:
• All "old" Hyperlink Destinations are not created as shared ones, thereby avoiding InDesign's desire to open and convert all the old INDD files.
• All shared Destinations are stored elsewhere, not in their original INDD (or whatever is going on with them right now).
• Implement a method to short-circuit this update process (like hitting Esc exits the opening of the Hyperlink Destinations palette, or prevents the action if I masochistically try selecting and editing a Hyperlink Destination once it opens, etc).
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> I'm trying to create links from a webpage to specific spots in a pdf.
This makes it sound like you need links from a webpage to a PDF.
> I can get it to work perfectly if I create the hyperlink destinations
> in the pdf, using the Acrobat software.
But this makes it sound like you need links from a PDF to a webpage.
> When I try it, though, I can't get the
> webpage link to go to the destination, only to the top of the pdf.
And this makes it sound like you're linking from webpage to PDF.
Which one are you doing?
1) If you want a link from a webpage to a PDF, the link must be in the
webpage.
2) If you want a link from a PDF to a webpage, the link must be in the PDF.
I can help you with #2. I could probably help you with #1 too, but I
don't think I would use Indesign.
Kenneth Benson
Pegasus Type, Inc.
www.pegtype.com

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I need help understanding the shared hyperlink option when creating hyperlinks in InDesign CS5 (Mac) and how to change a shared hyperlink destination.
I want to build a document that contains hyperlinks to files on the client’s server. The end use is to make a PDF in which the client can click on a hyperlink and it opens (for example) a Word document or another PDF on their server. When I started the project, I thought I would create shared hyperlinks because a single server document would be referred to by several links scattered through the InDesign document I was building.
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Document: [my document name]
Name [the file path I put in]
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Thanks for your consideration.

Well. I do feel sort of bait-and-switched, but...
I want to get the links back to the point where double clicking on the hyperlink name (number) in the Hyperlink palette opens an Edit Hyperlink dialog where the destination is Link to: File and the file path shows up in the File Path box as an editable string. Just the way I made them in the first place.
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