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Inspiring
Sep 8, 2025 11:00 AM UTC
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Add one-click option to relink all missing links to a folder

In InDesign, when all links in a document are missing, the workflow is very inefficient. Right now, I have to:

1. Click the first missing link,
2. .Shift-click the last one to select them all,
3. Choose
Relink to Folder…,
4. .Then finally pick the correct folder.

This should be possible in one step.

Please add a small icon or button in the Links panel (or in the Missing Links dialog) that immediately opens the Relink to Folder dialog for all missing links at once.

This would save a huge amount of repetitive clicking, especially in large documents.

BobLevine
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Sep 8, 2025 11:08 AM UTC

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tonks_the_auror
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Sep 8, 2025 4:20 PM UTC

You could make a shortcut key for Relink to Folder.

With the links panel open, Command/CTRL = A to select all of the missing links

[choose keyboard shortcut] mine is CTRL-OPT = l (on a Mac)

Choose the folder

Done.

It's not a one-click solution, but it does cut down the repetitive clicking.

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tonks_the_auror
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Sep 8, 2025 4:23 PM UTC

Sorry, those should be plus signs
Command/CTRL + A
CTRL-OPT + l

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Inspiring
Nov 4, 2025 12:26 PM UTC

It doesn’t work for me.

Even when the Links panel is active, Command/CTRL + A doesn’t select all links like in your video. Nothing happens.

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leo.r
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Sep 8, 2025 3:07 PM UTC

I don't know if this does exactly what you're looking for:

https://www.marspremedia.com/software/indesign/links-relink-subfolders

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BobLevine
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Sep 8, 2025 11:08 AM UTC