Bulk relinking of photos

Question

I am working on a macbook air with OS15.6, and Adobe InDesign 20.5 creative cloud.

I made a book in ID a few years ago which has hundreds of photos. The files (ID and photos) were on a backup disk but I have since transferred all those to a new disk with a new name. Because of the new disk name, when I open the ID file, it doesn't find any of the photos and they all need to be relinked. The photos are all in the same folder structure as before. The only thing that has changed is the name of the harddrive disk they are held on.

Is there a way to do a bulk relink of all these photos so I don't need to go one by one for hundreds of images?

mpkadobe · Accepted Answer

Turns out 'Search for Missing Links in This Folder' only works when all images are in the same folder. For nested folders, I found an ID script that allows bulks relinks.

https://www.corullon.com.br/scripts/product/relink-recursively/#

Abhishek Rao · Answer

Hi @mpkadobe,

Thanks for sharing the details. Since the folder structure remains the same and only the disk name has changed, you can relink all the missing images in one go. In the Links panel, select one missing image and use the 'Relink' option. When the dialog box opens, navigate to the new folder location on your renamed drive and check 'Search for Missing Links in This Folder'. InDesign will automatically relink all the other missing files that share the same relative paths.

Give that a try and let me know if it works or if the issue persists.

Abhishek

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