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Hyperlinks Opening Another Document

May 23, 2012 9:43 AM

Tags: #indesign #cs6 #hyperlinks

I am trying to work with my hyperlinks in CS6. Everytime I try to do anything (update a hyperlink, add one, assign one to text), InDesign wants to open up an older file and reference it. For each time I click on anything in the hyperlink panel, It will go through all the existing hyperlinks, open the old document and briefly says "converting data." It takes about 5 minutes to run through for every click I made. I don't want this document referencing an older document at all. How can I get the hyperlinks to unassociate from the old document?

 

Thanks.

546 Views   5 Replies   Latest reply: JillPainter, Mar 6, 2013 8:21 AM
 
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  • Peter Spier
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    1. Peter Spier,
    May 23, 2012 9:49 AM   in reply to Cranberry Teacup
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    Hyperlinks are absolute. It sounds like you're convering a bunch of legacy files, and those hyperlinks are going to continue to point to the old versions unless you change them in the new file to point to the new versions of your files, or perhaps rename the old versions and save the new ones with the old names.

     
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  • Cranberry Teacup
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    2. Cranberry Teacup,
    May 23, 2012 10:00 AM   in reply to Peter Spier
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    Thank you for your help.

     

    The hyperlinks are just web URLs. Why do they need to associate to another document at all? The file it's calling on is a CS5 document. The file I'm working on now was originally a CS5 Template, resaved as a CS6 template and used to create the new document that I am in. Is there any way to dump all the links so I can recreate them? In the meantime, when it finally frees up, I will try renaming the file, but that's not a permanent solution as I need to create new files regularly based off the same template.

     
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    3. Cranberry Teacup,
    May 23, 2012 10:10 AM   in reply to Cranberry Teacup
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    Renaming the original file helped. It is now not referencing the old document. Thanks again for your help.

     
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    4. Peter Spier,
    May 23, 2012 11:25 AM   in reply to Cranberry Teacup
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    Odd that it would do that for web URLs. Are you sure there weren't some sort of inter-doc cross references?

     
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  • JillPainter
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    5. JillPainter,
    Mar 6, 2013 8:21 AM   in reply to Peter Spier
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    I have a book created in InDesign with hyperlinks between the various documents in the book. When I copied the book and it's Indesign  files to another location, the hypperlinks still go back to the original folder. Can I  re-connect the documents within the book in it's new location so that the hyperlinks will work?

     
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