Saying there is links when there are no links!

[Michael Keating]

I designed an InDesign doc with no links.

But, whenever I try to open the document, it says it is finding linked files (and showing me the number of linked files with is around 90 or so). This is slowing up the opening of the file considerably, and when it does finally open, I look in the links panel and therer are no links showing!

Does anyone know what is going on?

[Eugene Tyson · Accepted solution]

Save the file as an IDML and then open that - and resave as another InDesign file.

[Michael Keating]

I'll give it a try, thank you

[Michael Keating]

Hi Eugene_Tyson.

Yes, this seems to work, thank you.

[Laubender]

Hi Michael,

did you do this document from scratch?
Or did you place snippet files or library assets?

Any overset text in the document?

Hm. Missing hyperlinks to page destinations of other InDesign documents?

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

[Michael Keating]

Hi.

Yes, the document was crated from scratch.

There are no library assets used.

No Overset text used.

No hyperlinks or cross references used.

Note: I have used paragraph styles

[Laubender]

What does InDesign's live Preflight suggest?

Does it showing missing links? And if yes, can you see some details?

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

[Michael Keating]

Good point.

I'll open the document (takes approx 15mins).

I'll let you know what the prefligh info says

[Michael Keating]

Hi.

I got the document fixed. I just needed to save it as an IDML document, open it and resave it as an INDD.

All the phantom links seemed to of disapeared.

But your advice was helpful anyway, it did help me catch other unrelated errors.

Appriciated.