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Here I wrote a quick & dirty script for you.
Change the path variable in line 9 to whatever the path you want.
Select an image with black or white arrow and run the script.
...var scriptName = "Relink selected link to folder",
doc;
PreCheck();
//===================================== FUNCTIONS ======================================
function Main(image) {
var file,
path = "/E/Archive/My folder/", // type the path to your folder here
link = image.itemLink;
if (link.status == LinkStatus.LINK_M
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But one more thing, it is possible to put the path of the folder into the script, so I dont need to choose the folder anymore.
I didn't look carefully into the script, but I'd made the following adjustments:
Note: the script processes all open documents and looks for the images starting from the 'root' folder and down there.
Below is my (quick & dirty) modified (totally untested) version:
var i, j, searchfolder;
for (j=0; j<app.documents.length; j++) {
doc = app.documents
;
imgs = doc.links;
path = "/E/Archive"; // type here the path for the folder to start
searchfolder = new Folder(path);
for (i=0; i<imgs.length; i++)
{
// Missing?
$.writeln("Image "+i);
if (imgs.status == LinkStatus.LINK_MISSING)
{
$.writeln("Missing: "+imgs.name+" lookign in "+searchfolder);
// Do we have a file?
imglist = findAnyFileDownThere(imgs.name, searchfolder);
$.writeln("Found "+imglist.length+" possible replacements.");
if (imglist.length == 1)
{
// Oh yeah
imgs.relink(imglist[0]);
$.writeln("Relinked to "+imglist[0]);
}
}
}
}
function findAnyFileDownThere (filename, path)
{
var result, folderList, fl;
result = Folder(path).getFiles (filename+".*");
if (result.length > 0)
return result;
folderList = Folder(path).getFiles(function(item) { return item instanceof Folder && !item.hidden; });
for (fl=0; fl<folderList.length; fl++)
{
$.writeln("Looking in: "+path+"/"+folderList[fl].name);
result = findAnyFileDownThere (filename, path+"/"+folderList[fl].name);
if (result.length > 0)
return result;
}
return [];
}
Thank you so much Kasyan. I make over 100 documents per day and about 100 photos in each document need to be relinked to only 1 folder. Yes the feature "Relink to folder" is the way I am doing. But in each document, some photos are already relinked and some are not. I just want to speed up workflow by only "pressing a button" and the scipt will: choose missing links in the document I am working on, and relink them to the folder I want (and i want to pass through the dialog box "choosing folder" because I have only 1 folder)
And i am apreciated about the script above but sadly it didnt work 
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And i am apreciated about the script above but sadly it didnt work
I just tested the script against a simple test file and it did work for me, though it took about a dozen of secs since it processes all subfolders.
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Why don't you want to use the Relink to Folder feature?
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