Turn off Automatic Re-linking

[default74qhe656vn8y]

Hello,

Our company recently re-vamped their servers and consolidated folders. I am stuck re-linking 462 links inside of one document. My problem is - when I relink images on page 1 (of 400), and find my images for that page in folder titled "page one", I go to re-link my first image and while it's "gears are spinning" it decides to auto-link the three other images on page 1 and ten images on page 62 with images from a completely different folder........ I need it to stop re-linking photos that i am not selecting. Why is it doing this when I am physically selecting the numbered link? How do i turn this off?  Why is it relinking images on different pages, but not all of them? There are so many questions and this is destroying my document. Everytime i update one link, it auto-relinks the incorrect images on a different page causing me to be in a vicious cycle/loop! please send help!

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

If the same file is linked multiple times - you'll see it as a folder with all instances - if you update one - the rest should also be updated...

Or can you upload a screenshot of your Links Palette? 

Or maybe you should trash your preferences - as they got corrupted? 

[default74qhe656vn8y]

I'm sure i'm describing this poorly, but no it isn't the same image that is being linked multiple times. They are completely different images. Example: page one has an image of an apple in folder: page one. I re-link, and on page 17 my image of a computer is re-linked with an image of an orange from folder: page fiftytwo..... both folders, "page one, page fiftytwo" are subfolders to folder: "images" so I understand that they have 'similar' locations, but i'm not understanding how these links are jumping. Also, the incorrect re-linking on page 17.... is not happening on all pages. Most pages still have faulty links showing, but a few are slipping through my cracks when it auto-relinks (and doesn't tell me which ones it is relinking while doing it incorrectly).

[default74qhe656vn8y]

Where would i find preferences to adjust this?

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/reset-indesign-preferences-and-other-troubleshoo...

[default74qhe656vn8y]

After reading through the help on that page, and since i'm not getting any error codes, I don't believe my file is corrupted. It seems this is an issue with the program itself. I dug a little further and there is linking preferences in "file handling" to change from 'most recent' or 'original folder', but there is nothing to turn off the auto-linking the program is completing on unselected images. 

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

You sometimes won't have any error messages - just strange behaviour. 

[leo.r]

Example: page one has an image of an apple in folder: page one. I re-link, and on page 17 my image of a computer is re-linked with an image of an orange from folder: page fiftytwo..... 

By @default74qhe656vn8y

Just to make sure: do these two images of a computer and an orange have identical names (while residing in different folders), OR are their names different (that is, by way of example, InDesign relinks image named "computer.psd" with an image "orange.psd")? 

[default74qhe656vn8y]

Unfortunately, they are totally different names. I've attached a photo where you can see some of my link names in InDesign, and then an image of one of the project image folders containing the different names/how they are named (mostly by folder name followed by an image number) and the file pathway. I like this idea though, perhaps I will comb through the folders and double-check for duplicate names somehow. 

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

I'm sorry, but your screenshts from the Links panel are not very helpful.

Can you do new ones - after clicking on the ones that get wrongly relinked - so we can see how they are seen by InDesign?

Or - as you work on a PC - can you try my tool? Then you'll be able to see FULL paths for ALL links and compare - this part is completely FREE.