how to delete placed file from indesign document

Community Expert

Compare the permissions of the file you created and the one's that work? If it still does not work then upload the file on Dropbox and share the link here, i will see if it runs on my MAC or not?

-Manan

HaahoouAuthor

Inspiring

ok thank you for the script it works. it just gived=s this messgae at end

just want to understand why i am geting this error and how to stop this. It could be because of my file because i have a linked file that is behaving strangely. I will post question about it.

Community Expert

Which editor did you use to create this jsx file?

-Manan

HaahoouAuthor

Inspiring

i am using mac(OS Catalina) and used texteditor and made sure that its plain text not rich text.

Correct answer

Community Expert

Ok, now I understand the problem. I don't think there is anything inbuilt to achieve this. I quickly put up a script that can help you. See the following, just change the values of the linkName array to the name of the links that you want to delete and it should get it done, The link name can be seen in the links panel, it is generally the file name

var linkName = ["download1.jpeg", "app1496256.pdf"]
for(var i =0; i < linkName.length; i++)
{
	var ln = app.documents[0].links.itemByName(linkName[i])
	while(ln.isValid == true)
	{
		ln.parent.parent.remove()
		ln = app.documents[0].links.itemByName(linkName[i])
	}
}

-Manan

HaahoouAuthor

Inspiring

Hi I save this code as ",jsx" file. but in script panel it is greyed out and i can see a "i" symbol next to it. when I bring mouse over on the it in the script panel it says
"This file is not executable by any supported language".

Robert at ID-Tasker

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".jsx" - "." not ","

Community Expert

Are you not able to select the object showing the content of AI file on the INDD document? If yes just select and click delete to remove the object and the link from your document. You can select using the layer panel as well, and also use the links panel, just right click the link and select Go To Link, then hit delete button to delete the object

-Manan