I apologise for the inconvenience that you all are facing. This is indeed a bad experience and we are working on improving the experience. The problem is not yet resolved though.
Have the Hyperlinks point to destinations that exist in the same document or do not use the Hyperlink Destination altogether and make all the Hyperlinks un-shared such that they directly point to the URL.
If there are only a few hyperlinks concerned this may be an easy task but in cases where there are many this is a problematic task.
I have made a script that does the same for you. the script loops across all the Hyperlinks and for each hyperlink first checks whether its destination exists in a different document, if so it saves all attributes of the Hyperlink (its destination, style etc) and re-creates the hyperlink, now pointing to the URL directly rather then via Hyperlink Destination. Please note that this works only for Hyperlinks that are of URL type.
Please do take a back-up of the document and first try out the script and once you find things to be fine then only move on to it.
curDoc = app.activeDocument
allHyperlinks = curDoc.hyperlinks
var counter = 0
for(i=0;i<allHyperlinks.length; i++)
{
theHyperlink = allHyperlinks
try
{
if(theHyperlink.destination.parent.name != curDoc.name)
{
//storing the properties of the Hyperlinks
src = theHyperlink.source;
dest = theHyperlink.destination;
name = theHyperlink.name;
borderStyle = theHyperlink.borderStyle;
bdrColor = theHyperlink.borderColor;
bdrhighight = theHyperlink.highlight;
bdrWidth = theHyperlink.width;
bdrVisible = theHyperlink.visible;
srcText = src.sourceText;
srcStyle = src.appliedCharacterStyle;
destURL = dest.destinationURL;
destHidden = dest.hidden;
destName = dest.name + Math.random().toString();
//removing the hyperlink
theHyperlink.remove();
//Creating the new hyperlink
dest = curDoc.hyperlinkURLDestinations.add( destURL, {name: destName || Math.random().toString(), hidden: true} );
src.remove();
src = curDoc.hyperlinkTextSources.add (srcText);
//applying the properties to the newly created hyperlink
theHyperlink = curDoc.hyperlinks.add(src, dest);
theHyperlink.name = name;
theHyperlink.borderStyle = borderStyle;
theHyperlink.borderColor = bdrColor;
theHyperlink.highlight = bdrhighight ;
theHyperlink.width = bdrWidth;
src.appliedCharacterStyle = srcStyle;
theHyperlink.visible = bdrVisible;
counter++;
}
}
catch(e)
{}
}
alert ("changed " + counter + " hyperlinks and made them point to non-shared destinations")
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