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Inspiring
March 28, 2025
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Location on disk of a placed image?

  • March 28, 2025
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Hello. I'm getting back to work after over a year on a large book with many images, and several images will need to be edited. Is there a quick way to locate the image on disk that is linked in InDesign? I don't see anything like "image properties" or "linked image" when right clicking on the image in the project. I see relink image, but it doesn't take me to the location or the currently linked image. 

Correct answer Jeff33740050deru

Ah yes. So I see that if you right click on the link in the links panel there's an option "Reveal in Explorer" which takes me directly to the file on disk. Thank you both!

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Peter Spier
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 28, 2025

In the Links panel there should be an image properties pane below the list of links that will populate when you select a link in the panel, and it should show the path.

That said, if the link is not missing, Edit Original will open the image from it's location with no further input from you.

Jeff33740050deruAuthorCorrect answer
Inspiring
March 28, 2025

Ah yes. So I see that if you right click on the link in the links panel there's an option "Reveal in Explorer" which takes me directly to the file on disk. Thank you both!

James Gifford—NitroPress
Legend
March 28, 2025

Click on 'Relink' and it will open the linked file's location. (Usually; if you are working on multiple projects it sometimes goes to the last link or relink location instead.)

 

And, under Win11 at least, hovering over the link in the Links panel shows the full file path.

 

I don't argue that there could be a better/more obvious/more integral way to open the file location from within ID.

Inspiring
March 28, 2025

Edit: I do see "Edit Original", but I would have to still have to find the location of that original to either edit it or replace it. So is there a quicker way? Thanks!