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June 10, 2021
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Change folder of all linked images

  • June 10, 2021
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Good morning to all 

I'm new on the community.. I would ask a little help about a problem

I've got some Adobe Illustrator files with 40 - 50 images linked.

The ai file and all the images are stored on a shared folder on \\server-1

Now i need to move all the root folder with ai files and images files to new \\server-2

 

But all ai files lose the link to the images.

There is a way to update all images link replacing the \\server-1 folder to \\server-2 folder?

I found out some JS script, but give some error and i'm a very newby in programming for adobe illustrator..

 

Version CS5 15.0.0

 

Thanks in advance

Luca

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Participant
June 16, 2021

Hi to all again

I found out this post dated 2016

https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator/script-to-bulk-update-linked-image-paths/m-p/8552939 

It contains a script to save in variable all the info of picture linked in the document

Then we can extract the xml of all var, change the linked file location (from \\old-server to \\new-server) and reimport the xml to refresh all images linked...

Someone can help me understand if it could work ?

Run the script in my AI  give me an error..

Thank's

Ton Frederiks
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 10, 2021

Can you save a Package to the new location?

Participant
June 10, 2021

Yes.. I can save across shared folder...