Relinking Indesign files in bulk?

Question

The company I'm working at recently moved our entire graphics archive to an online storage facility called 'Box' - this has caused all of our InDesign files to go haywire, as you'd expect! Is there a way to update all the links in bulk? All that's changed is the beginning of the file location, the rest is exactly the same.

For example, the link would have previously looked like:

Network > Server > Shared Company Folders > Graphics Archive > Folder > Subfolder

But now looks like:

Box > Graphics Archive > Folder > Subfolder

Is it possible to instruct InDesign to search through our graphics archive at the new link in order to find all the files from there or somethng? It would take days to relink everything manually!

Laubender · Accepted Answer

Hi,see into Kasyan Servetsky's script:Restore broken links after server migration in InDesign Regards,Uwe [ Link updated by moderator ]

jerry-rcm · Answer

We are also trying to migrate from our file server to Box.com.

If we use Kasyan Servetsky's script, what should we enter in the Change To field?

Our users have Box Drive installed, which provides a file path. The issue is that the file path is unique to each user. So updating the path to C:\Users\JohnSmith\Box would allow John Smith to see linked images in InDesign, but nobody else who accesses the file would be able to see the linked images.

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