Issues with images when using data merge

Here's the deal. We are converting from CS6 to CC2014. I have a file that opens fine in CS6, the merge works fine.
If I open that file in CC2014 it works fine with the exact same list. But, if I relink a new list or change and update the current list, the data merge no longer works for the images in data merge. Even though nothing has changed in the file links.
I get the error that it cannot find the images.
Is this a know issue?
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It could be that the template is some how bunged up, even though it is evidently working in CS6. You might want to try, as a test, setting upa new document in CC, add the data file, put your placeholders in the document and merging. Then change the merge file, then try to update it.
All I can really say is that I have not experienced this issue (yet). And as far as I can tell, yours is the first post on the matter that isn't document corruption related, or that Previewing the records hasn't caused some malady. either needs the template remade or brought into a new file to fix. You issue sounds sort of half-way between.
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