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_Bharathi_Raja_
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July 10, 2008
Question

Indd - JS: Searching an image in subfolders and relinking

  • July 10, 2008
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Hi,

Can any one help me....
In an Indesign Document I want to relink all the images to a new path.
Please see the below script, it search for the images in a specified path only. But i want to search the images in a particular directory along with its sub-folder too.

var myFolder = Folder.selectDialog("Select Folder for Images");
var new_path = myFolder+ '/'
imgs = app.activeDocument.allGraphics
for (i = 0; i < imgs.length; i++)
{

img = imgs.itemLink

myFile = File (new_path + img.name);

if (myFile.exists) {
img.relink (File (new_path + img.name))
img.update()
}
}

Thanks in advance,
Bharathi Raja G.
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Kasyan Servetsky
Kasyan Servetsky
Legend
July 10, 2008
Hi Bharathi,

I recently wrote a similar script, you can download it from here:
http://www.businessweekly.h.com.ua/relink.html

See discussion here:
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?128@@.59b50466

Kasyan
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Martin Fischer
Inspiring
July 10, 2008
Hello Bharathi,

you will have to take care of one thing:
> img = imgs.itemLink

There may be images without a link (e.g. embedded images).
With them you would run into an error adressing their itemLink.

Martin
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Martin Fischer
Inspiring
July 10, 2008
Hi,

I am just working on a script like yours.
To catch files in subfolders I use the following function: 


var topFolder = Folder.selectDialog();

var myResult = scanSubFolders( topFolder );



function scanSubFolders( tFolder ) 

{

 var sFolders = new Array();

 var allFiles = new Array();

 sFolders[0] = tFolder;

 for ( var j = 0; j < sFolders.length; j++ ) // loop through folders

 {

  var procFiles = sFolders.getFiles();

  for ( var k = 0; k < procFiles.length; k++ ) // loop through this folder contents

  {

   if ( procFiles instanceof File )

    allFiles.push( procFiles );

    else if ( procFiles instanceof Folder )

    sFolders.push( procFiles );

   }

  }

 return allFiles;

}


If you wish to you can return the subfolders too: 

return {files:allFiles, folders:sFolders};


Martin
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_xbytor_
Known Participant
July 10, 2008
Here's what I use to locate files in a tree:

function findFiles(folder, mask) {
var files = folder.getFiles(mask);
var folders = folder.getFiles(function(f) { return f instanceof Folder; });

for (var i = 0; i < folders.length; i++) {
var f = folders;
var ffs = findFiles(f, mask);

// Array.concat occasionally fails in CS/CS2. Do it manually
while (ffs.length > 0) {
files.push(ffs.shift());
}
}
return files;
};

This has been sliced out of some other code

The mask parameter can be a string, RegExp, or a function. In your case, the
call would probably look something like this:

myFile = findFile(img.name);

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