InDesign Scripting use .reinitLink() Change missing link status to modified

Question

I’m trying to relink files in a document without updating them so I can review them 1 by 1.

I have successfully used .reinitLink() on a mac, but It won’t update the link status until I reopen the document. I have been able to test sucessfully with .relink, but I don’t want it to update automatically.

Example

var pathVar = "/FullPathToAsset/"
app.activeDocument.links[0].reinitLink("file:"+pathVar)

I tried using links[0].update() after reinitLink
But nothing happens. Is there a way to check links after these updates are made?

_wckdTall_ · Accepted Answer

​@leo.rTurns out, It was a formatting thing. When I’m pulling the file paths initially, it uses a home directory path:~/Desktop/Path_To_Files.psdIt appears, reinitLink needs the a linkResourceURI, which can be corrected by passing the string path to File(), prepending “file:/”(as the path includes a leading slash already) and extracting the fsName.app.activeDocument.links[0].reinitLink("file:/"+File("~/Desktop/pathToFile.psd").fsName)Haven’t needed decodeURLComponent, switches to modified right away!

leo.r · Answer

Do I understand correctly that you wantthe status of the link to be “modified” after you relink it?If so then you can do something to force it to appear modified. For example, send it the touchshell command (albeit it’ll change its modification date; the command has all kinds of options though). Or write some metadata to the file. (It’s possible there are simpler ways I didn’t think of.)

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