How to Remove Broken Links from InDesign's Links Panel

[Paul_Miller]

I'm reusing an InDesign (2015) document that had many images linked. Those images are gone forever, but the missing links are still in the Links panel. I just want to remove those linked images from the Links panel.

The images or the linked images do not exist in the document structure. There must be a way to remove these useless orphaned linked images from the Links panel.

Thanks!

[James26696403fioy]

Ha ha, of course! Silly me. 😄

Here's the file. I deleted all the pages and all the parent pages — it's effectively a blank, empty document now — but my broken link is still there in the links panel.

[rob day]

My Links panel is empty:

Are you sure you deleted the correct Caches and Preference folders?:

macOS:

user ▸ ⁨Library⁩ ▸ ⁨Caches⁩ ▸ ⁨Adobe InDesign⁩ ▸ ⁨Version 18.0⁩

⁨user ▸ ⁨Preferences⁩ ▸ ⁨Adobe InDesign⁩ ▸ ⁨Version 18.0⁩

Windows

Users ▸ ⁨AppData⁩ ▸ Local ▸ ⁨Adobe ▸ InDesign⁩ ▸ ⁨Version 18.0⁩

Users ▸ ⁨ UserName ▸ ⁨ AppData ▸ ⁨ Roaming ▸ ⁨ Adobe ▸ ⁨ InDesign ▸ ⁨ Version 18

[mamafour · Accepted solution]

I had the exact same issue - it occurred when I deleted a page that still had objects on it. They hung around with no associated page and I could NOT get rid of the warning. But saving as an IDML file (just using file > save as, and not exporting), then re-opening and saving as usual reset the file perfectly.

[James26696403fioy]

Thanks, @mamafour — your solution fixed the problem for me. Much appreciated!

[defaults02xicfyib40]

Thank you so much for that tip. Never crossed my mind about the IDML.  See, 6 years later you are still helping. Again, A HUGE THANK YOU!!!

[Lou Ruiz]

I was having this problem. The missing PDF's were on a serperate layer, locked and hidden.

[Gasper2373645930z9]

The indd -> idml -> indd procedure took care of our problem. Thank you!