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External Text Anchor not found

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April 28, 2024
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Why am I getting this error when exporting to EPUB (Fixed Layout)?

I've looked for solutions on this forum & elsewhere.

The TOC has been remade from scratch multiple times.

Thinking it could have something to do with footnotes, I manually copied and recreated all of them.

I've tried the IDML trick suggested in another post. Nothing... same error.

The location the error points to appears to be some sort of Cache. Could I just delete it (or move it away)?

Thanks

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Correct answer Inélsòre

It was a link in a footnote.

This was generated from the "copy permalink" function of the target website which, for some reason, starts with http:// not https:// like the rest of the website. This apparently was not good enough for InDesign.

Changing it solved the issue.

I only wish error messages were more helpful.

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

I'd search the actual content of the EPUB to locate the exact location and context of the link. (Not something I recommend often, but sometimes bits of grit like this are so "orphaned" that none of the regular searches or reviews will turn them up.)

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InélsòreAuthorCorrect answer

Inspiring

It was a link in a footnote.

This was generated from the "copy permalink" function of the target website which, for some reason, starts with http:// not https:// like the rest of the website. This apparently was not good enough for InDesign.

Changing it solved the issue.

I only wish error messages were more helpful.

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

I agree, this is about one step up from an idiot light.

I find ID's logic in parsing and validating URLs extremely narrow and fussy; I have more than one destination that ends with a folder (...com/ART/) for entirely valid reasons and zero compatibility problems, but ID red-flags these as invalid. That this checking extends to export without even being clear about the issue... sigh.

While https is now considered good form and all, it's not mandatory and should not be a validation issue at this level.

Robert at ID-Tasker

Legend

But as per end of the link - ClipboardScrap1 - looks like something you've copy&pasted from some external application?

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InélsòreAuthor

Inspiring

Yes, from a copy of the same document within InDesign itself.

It seems, though, that it was a broken hyperlink (still, copied through multiple, slightly different iterations of the same file).

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