3 Replies Latest reply: Jul 18, 2013 2:17 PM by P Spier RSS

    Should .indb books be aware of their current path.

    jsligh Community Member

      InDesign books (.indb) contain fixed paths to their associated InDesign documents. If you copy a book and its associated documents to a new location and then open the book in that new location, it still retains the original path to the associated files.

       

      Books should be aware that they have moved to a new path and that the associated files have moved. It should prompt the user whether it should point toward to original associated InDesign files or the copy in the new location.

       

      It is not often that this would occur but it did trip me up about a year ago. I was working on a booked document shared on a Dropbox folder. I needed to create a similar document with a few additions. I copied the booked document package from my Dropbox folder locally on my machine. As I added additional InDesign documents to the book and made revisions, I noticed Dropbox alerting me to the sync. It took a few minutes to straighten the situation out and ensure the original documents were restored.

       

      Any thoughts?