However, I see that on Windows the syntax of the data source is like the list below where a starting slash is necessary that is indicating the folder where the data source file is saved: @images /Folder-1/Folder-2/imagename-1.jpg /Folder-3/Folder-4/Folder-5/imagename-2.jpg /imagename-3.jpg For us, if we are using a windows machine, we would need to use \ instead of / So it would actually look like this: @images \Folder-1\Folder-2\imagename-1.jpg \Folder-3\Folder-4\Folder-5\imagename-2.jpg \imagename-3.jpg ... View more

OK I have a real answer to this long asked question. It took me a couple of hours of playing around with different options but I got it to work on Mojave OS and using InDesign CC 2019. We keep all of our files on a NAS and nothing local. Indesign file can live anywhere on your server. Example of the file path where we have our images saved is as follows: /Volumes/Marketing/KLS/ARTWORK/Custom_Marketing_Tool/test/Image001.jpg You can save your tab delimited text file (your data file) in this directory: this is just an example, you will need to replace the names of folders with your own but look at the path compared to the path above. /Volumes/Marketing/KLS/ARTWORK/Custom_Marketing_Tool/ Then in your tab delimited text file in the @Photos column, the only part of the directory you need is: test/Image001.jpg Note that I am using forward slashes and not colons. Then everything works beautifully. It only needs the path to the image relative to where your data file lives. ... View more