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New link icon

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
January 16, 2020
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I open Bridge and all of a sudden there's what looks to be a chain link icon sitting on many of my thumbnails. I have no idea what its supposed to mean or what the general purpose is. Could someone please explain the consept behind this? And is this yet another forced entry by Adobe or is it possible to remove it somehow? Very annoying when I don't have a clue why it's there.

Bridge 10.0.2.131 / W10

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willwenzel

Known Participant

I found this thread when the link first showed up in bridge, but for me it was there because an action I ran placed a linked file inside another document, and even if the document was flattened and closed, the link icon remained. However, changing the Place command to embedded rather than linked removes the icon.

daring_Dusk5C1F

Known Participant

I'm also getting this now for the first time in my life. I outsource some Real Estate photo editing overseas. Now sometimes some of my files will have this very randomly after I download my files from the editor.

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Marie A.

Participant

I'm having this problem too and have no idea why the link icon is on some of my images and not others.

twinbrush

Inspiring

I'm getting this too and my assumption (makes sense for me at least) is that in the file contains a linked image or library item: Something from your creative cloud library, either an icon, adobe font, or in my case, an image downloaded and added from adobe stock.

A Lilley

Participating Frequently

This has got to be a bug. I have opened up in explorer and it is not saved to cloud storage - how annoying. This is new to me today, none of my other files have this icon. I don't use cloud storage so I would have been suprised to have it save there.

A Lilley

Participating Frequently

Ok so I have found that a smart object (illustrator pasted paths) cause a cloud icon on the PSD layer. Then if you flatten this and save out the link icon dissappears from the thumbnail. However a JPG made fromn the same PSD (with illustrator smart object) still carries the link icon even though it is a JPG.

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LAVogel

Participant

I have noticed the link showing up also. I receive files from students and critique participants. I found that if you look in the Metadata Panel, not in Preferences, but in the actual Bridge Metadata panel and scroll down past the IPTC Extension, you will see the Linked Files menu. If you toggle it open it will tell you how or where it is linked. In most files I have received from students, the link does ahow as cloud-asset// with a long link to where it is linked. I suspect that either intentially or unintentially, the file was added to their cloud storage. When you save a file in Photoshop there is an option to "Save to cloud documents. In the latest versions of Photoshop it shows up as an option, in previous versions I think I remember that there was a check box that was automatically checked to save files to the cloud, which was a bit annoying. It was easy to inadvertantly save files to the cloud. Now you would have to make an effort to save the file to the cloud. I suspect that perhaps "perrybrus" as well as many of us my have unknowingly saved files to the cloud in the earlier versions of Photoshop. Perhaps the onlu way to eliminate the link is to go to your cloud account and delete the saved files from the cloud. Give it a shot and let us know, I could be wrong.

Barbie-qu

Participant

I noticed the same icon on some jpg images in Bridge today and saw the linked files referenced in the metadata section.

After a bit of searching i found this in the Adobe help (https://helpx.adobe.com/bridge/using/metadata-adobe-bridge.html

Adobe InDesign CS5 and CS6 documents that contain linked files display a link badge in the upper-right corner of the thumbnail in the Content panel. The metadata for the linked files is available in Adobe Bridge.

Select an Adobe InDesign document with linked files in the Content panel of the Adobe Bridge window.

In the Metadata panel, expand the Linked Files section to view the names and paths of the linked files.

Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the .indd file and choose Show Linked Files to see the linked files in the Contents panel.

I couldn't find a way of removing the links from the file though.

jbm007

Community Expert

You can't.

S Teegarden

Participant

What kinds of file formats are you seeing this icon on?

For me I'm seeing them on .indd files and .tif + .psd files that contain linked assets or smart objects.

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perrybrusAuthor

Inspiring

Some are PSD's and others are jpeg and PNG files. I have copies of some of the PSD files in my cloud work area but I also have link icons on files that are not copied to CC. The link icons suddenly appeared after last Bridge update.

Barbie-qu

Participant

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jbm007

Community Expert

OK

I am back.

Go into preferences/ meatdata/ scrool down past IPTC extensions.

You will see a box checked off next to "linked files"

Uncheck it.

Restart Bridge.

That should clear out the link icon from being displayed.

Jim

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perrybrusAuthor

Inspiring

That didn't change anything I'm afraid. The link icons are still there on all the files. I even re opened Bridge twice and went back to the preferences to see if the Linked Files were still unchecked.