Hello.
On a Mac (I haven't tried this on my PC)I have noticed a diference between CS5.5 and CS6 in regards to relinking files.
In CS5, when I would relink a file (or find a missing link), if the file with the same name of the file I was relinking was in the current folder I was in, the file would highlight - thus indicating the file is there and easily able to relink.
In CS6, however, the magic highlighting is gone. If you need to relink a file, and you search a large picture directory it can take awhile to find your file name and sometimes your file name is forgotten already when you press relink, even more at the top of the dialog box of your relink, the whole file name is not even shown. There is ellipsis and several of the characters and often I have files with similar names and it is hard to tell the difference.
I hope I am express the problem clearly.
And, I am hoping there is some help I can get on this!
Thanks, as always!
Thank you very much for your reply.
Fortunately, I know there are workarounds to make it easier to relink, but I was just curious if there was a reason why this feature of CS 5.5 was removed. This is just a timesaver that I don't think necessarily needed to be omitted.
I will use the workarounds, as you said, to make it easier, but I was there was way to make CS6 simply operate the same way that CS4/CS5/CS5.5 did.
This is not an OS problem, it is an Adobe problem. Our studio is running Mac OSX 10.6.8 (and has been for a long time). We upgraded from CS5 to CS6 (skipped 5.5) and now have this problem.
Adobe, please fix this ASAP in an update. This is one of those small things that really helps speed up your workflow and being without it is a pain in the R's.
Cheers,
Tom
Same problem for me, but on Windows 7:
My original install was CS5.5 on Windows XP.
Upgraded to CS6, still on Windows XP. Problem didn't manifest.
Got a new PC with a fresh install of Windows 7, installed CS6, and auto-relinking disappeared.
Peter Spier's solution works for me. I navigate to the folder containing the file, press ENTER in the blank name field, and it auto-populates with the exact same name and finds the file on its own. Just hit ENTER again to confirm. Thanks, Peter!
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