Our team works exclusively in InDesign for our book layouts. We have a server in our office that hosts the main folder for every job, including linked images. When we're in the office, copying an .indd file locally and opening it up is a breeze—linked images connect across our internal network quickly and without trouble. However, working from home poses a bigger problem—InDesign files try to link across our VPN which bogs everything down. Since we're almost exclusively working from home now, this minor inconvenience has become a huge time drain.
The current workaround is to copy the .indd file, disconnect from the server, then open it and continue working, but that's still time-consuming and often frustrating—if you forget to disconnect, you're left with no option but to wait for InDesign to load all the links or risk creating issues by force quitting. What I'd love to be able to do is simply set InDesign to open a file and not link. The links could still exist, of course, they'd just be broken and could be reconnected as desired. But there's no way I know of to do that without renaming the folder storing the links, which starts to create all sorts of workflow problems.
Anybody know if something like this exists? Thanks!
Ryan
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