warning! Dangerous! Bug!:Pictures with the same name will be overwritten when they are moved to the same "Links" folder

[dublove]

Please be careful~~

Will make you die very badly! ! !

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Suppose you have two ID files and images:

D:\Afile\A.indd Links(folder)

D:\Afile\Links(folder)\A.tiff

D:\B file\B.indd Links(folder)

D:\Bfile\Links(folder)\A.tiff

The two A.tif names are the same, but the images are different

When you copy a page of B.indd to A.indd, you press Ctrl+Shift+D, right click >> copy the link to .....D:\Afile\Links(folder)

At this time the dangerous thing is coming:

"D:\Afile\Links(folder)\A.tiff" will be overwritten by "D:\Bfile\Links(folder)\A.tiff"! ! No tips! !

Only update tips about the image has been changed (yellow exclamation mark:!)

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There is also a trap: check the link missing in this file.

Please don't check it! ! !

[Barb Binder]

Hi 喜狼_edny:

Images in InDesign are linked to the .indd files in which they are used. This keeps the .indd file small and allows you to edit the images outside of InDesign, and InDesign will offer to update the modified images the next time the file is opened.

If you replace the original A.tif with a new version of A.tif in the same folder, you will overwrite the original. The next time the file is opened, it will pull in the updated version of A.tif.

Hopefully, you have been backing up your work and can restore the original A.tif file. And, be sure to rename them so that the two different images have unique names.

~Barb

[dublove]

我的意思是，这个软件有Bug,软件应该自动判断，生成A-1,A-2.tif

[Barb Binder]

H i喜狼_edny:

I'm not sure what this says. The translate function isn't working in the forum window, nor is it working in google.

~Barb

[jane-e]

Hi BarbBinder​

This is from Google Translate. It still doesn’t make a lot of sense.

~ Jane

[SJRiegel]

喜狼_edny  wrote

I mean, this software has bugs, the software should automatically judge, generate A-1, A-2.tif

The software as no way of knowing whether those new same-name file is actually intended to replace the existing one. The best defense against this is to have an image-naming scheme that guards against same-name files that contain different data.

[Srishti Bali]

Hi there,

Sorry to hear about this. Barb is right, if you replace the original A.tif with a new version of A.tif in the same folder, you will overwrite the original. That is a task performed by the operating system, hence it is mandatory that two different images in same folders have unique names. You can definitely share your feedback/feature request here: Adobe InDesign Feedback to get a solution for this. This is the best way of communicating with the Engineering and Product Management teams regarding issues and suggestions so they can be implemented in future releases.

Regards,

Srishti

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

I agree that ID packaging should re-name dupe file names from different locations based on the users OS method (numbered or copy)--or at least give a warning and offer a (global) choice how to proceed (copy, replace, or ignore).

However, in the meantime, I would use Bridge to add a location-based prefix to the files.

[Gusgsm]

If you copy a link by means of the Links palette and there's already an image with the same name in that folder (not necessarily "links"), InDesign will replace the first one with the copied one. This has been so since many versions (always?).

A notice saying "Thisfile.file already exist in blah, blah..." would be nice but it has always been this way. I do not think it is a bug but a feature (pun not intended).

[Joely]

I acknowledge the risks involved with the procedure described, but still can't stop laughing, after reading this title

warning! Dangerous! Bug!:

Please be careful~~

Will make you die very badly! ! !

I mean, seriously?