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Broken links in InDesign files on macOS Monterey 12.3.1
Hi there,
I've been happily working with Indesign files in Dropbox for a year now where my files are all stored Online Only. It used to be the case that Dropbox would automatically relink all the s...
Hello all together
I have the same problem in InDesign with files that are only online and despair almost every day when I have to edit InDesign jobs where I have to locate the files in the Finder first and download them every time.
Now I have discovered a workaround:
- Open a job in InDesign
- Select all entries in "Links"
- Right-click on the menu item "Edit With" > "Preview 11.0".
- After all files have been opened in Preview, quit Preview.
- Switch back to InDesign.
- Continue working.
I hope this helps some of you.
this workaround isn't working for me. I've made the relevant folders 'available offline', restarted the computer, still showing 50 broken links, and InDesign seems to want me to relink each one individually, which is obviously catastrophic for workflow.
in any case, we shouldn't have to be using a 'workaround' for this - Dropbox staff, any suggestions?
Jay
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHI Genie123, if you're still experiencing this issue, please try contacting the support team directly for them to assist further.
"For me, 'Dropbox for macOS on File Provider' worked for about 2 months. Unfortunately, it hasn't worked since the last update.
Support told me that you need to keep the number of files under 300,000 for 'Dropbox for macOS on File Provider' to kick in. After that, you can assign more folders to sync. I tried it. It doesn't work.
I uninstalled Dropbox and reinstalled it. During the installation, a window displayed that Dropbox can manage a maximum of 500,000 files on this computer. It's a new M3 MacBook. We pay for Dropbox for Business…
How is it going for you?
Hello, Beauriz have you found a solution in the meantime?
After updating from Big Sur to Ventura 13.6.7, downloading online data in Indesign no longer works for me and my PDFs contain gray images. Unfortunately, there is not enough disk space to download all the images that might be needed on the pages and make them available offline. Manually reloading the images is unfortunately very time-consuming.
