Moving indesign files (.indd) and link files

Hi guys
How can I move indesign files (.indd) and link files to another folder without breaking the link? or recreate the link.
I couldnt find any good answer.
Thanks

As per my knowledge, such scenario is not supported by product, these links are of "absolute" type (let Adobe team prove I am wrong).
If you have 360 files and need to rename/move the whole project, the only reasonable way is to write a script that would find and update all references with new location.
The only other trick that comes to my mind is to manipulate the file system (NTFS or whatever Mac OS X uses), i.e. create a hardlink for folder, and/or bunch of softlinks for files, between old and new location, so that from the program's point of view the path and filenames would be the same. A sort of a quick & dirty hack.
But it only makes sense to do so, if you do not need to reuse old location and filenames. A script to fix broken links, especially if you handle and support it yourself, will resolve this problem forever.

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Daté TETEGAN wrote:
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