Replace All Button Missing

[Jakkkub]

hi, 

since the new update or even before there is one immprtant Button Missoing: 
"replace all". 
When i open a document in which i connected an other illlustrator document with several artboards, usually i was asked if i want to replace all of them at once. Now this possibility is gone and i have to replace the artboards manually!! Why? How can i avoid this?

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

There used to be an Apply to All checkbox, now there is a Replace Button and when clicked, an option to find all missing links in the same folder.

[Jakkkub]

thats right, but this does not work with Artboards any more. 

[Ton Frederiks]

Can you describe what does not work with artboards anymore? Relinking to the artboard linked in the file works for me. Replacing the link with a new file does not work.

Edit: I see that you want to replace instead of fix a missing link, that does not work unfortunately.

[Jakkkub]

bit it did before. Why was it changed?

[Ton Frederiks]

Sometimes, improving one thing can have unexpected effects on another. At least this has been reported to the developers.

[Jakkkub]

tahnks a lot:)

Hope they don´t destroy more

[Ron5FC7]

Correct answer?! Kidding me. What improvement? 

[Ton Frederiks]

According to this UserVoice topic, there will soon be a fix.

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/48498587

[theshowe]

Replace all and searching for missing links isn't the same thing at all. If I'm using a template that has 20 links of one file and want to replace all of them at the same time because I have to run another sheet of a different design I now have to relink each image separately. This isn't acceptable in a prepress environment as press sheets are often set up this way. The new feature is useless to me and is costing significant time. It also doesn't help the if I select 4 images to link it will no longer automatically link one then pop up the menu to select the next. It will place one then just stop. This is becoming useless. 

[Prepress LBX373125513n81]

Hello.
Try to change the name of the link before open the document and you will need to link all one by one! bring back "Apply to All" please!

[Ton Frederiks]

It is a different function now, it will relink missing files, but not replace them.

[Jakkkub]

Example as i used it to create a Storyboard with Panels. Each Panel was an Artboard in an Illustrator File A. In a second Illustrater File B i collected all the Artboards to put them together in a Storyboard format.

The second Illustrator Format used to see all the Artboads in the fist File without a problem. Now, when i replace this fist File, i have to connect the same File as many times as i placed an Artbord. 

[Ron5FC7]

The old way was better, and actually worked. HIGHLY useful for imposing a bunch of stuff on a large sheet, and then flipping it and relinking all the side 2 images to another file all at once by temporarily intentionally breaking the link to the first file. REALLY SUCKS having to relink every damn one all manually now. 

[OrhanTekis]

[abuse removed]
By canceling the Replace All option, you are [abuse removed] users who perform mounted operations. When you upgrade the version of the program we paid for, you cancel features that are useful to people. For this reason, we still have to use the old version. Even though we wrote so much, you don't make any corrections. What exactly is your intention? [abuse removed] There was FreeHand before, you took it and destroyed it. You have become a monopoly. If you continue like this, we will stop writing to you. As Mac users, you are forcing us to use another program. What you are doing is a great injustice.
I installed version 28.6 today, but again there is no Replace All feature. I will have to delete it and use the old version again.[abuse removed]

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[Ton Frederiks]

See:

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/48498587