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Kelsey96
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August 11, 2023
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Illustrator Script to Relink Missing Links?

  • August 11, 2023
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Links are images that are all always in the same specific file path.

 

Issue I'm having:

I reopen an ai file that has a linked image. Every time, the image is missing the link and I have to manually relink it. Every image is in the same folder so it shouldn't be losing the link in the first place. I want a JavaScropt script that automatically relinks the missing link by checking that specific file path for the file name. 

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    m1b
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    m1bCommunity Expert
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    August 12, 2023

    Hi @Kelsey96, so if you open a document, it warns you that links are missing... if you then re-link those files (manually using the relink button in Link Panel) and then save and re-open the document, does it still show them as missing?

     

    If not, can you post screenshots of:

    1. the link panel showing the full path (click the Show Link Info arrow in the bottom left of Link Panel), and

    2. the path to the document shown in the Finder (MacOS) or Windows Explorer?

     

    Then it might be possible to help.

    - Mark

    m1b
    Community Expert
    m1bCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    August 12, 2023

    Also, I wrote a script for another thread that may help. Can you try that? You need to set the findWhat and changeTo variables in my script so that the replacement results in a valid path.

    - Mark

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