"Apply to All" checkbox or "Replace All" button are missing AGAIN
Apply to All option for missing/replacing links is missing again in version 28.5. Now instead of being able to click that and replace all links I know have to do the relink step up to 30 times every print file.
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Hello all,
The 'Apply to all' checkbox has been brought back in the Replace missing link dialogue.
'Apply to all' checkbox was removed when we introduced the 'Auto-relink' (search for missing links in this folder) functionality, as we though 'auto-relink' is going to take care of the 'replace all' workflow as well. But it didn't work as expected in few cases as pointed out by some of you.
Hence, with the latest release V29.2 (full roll out happens on Jan 9), we have decided to revert to the earlier experience whereby we are bringing back 'apply to all' checkbox and rolling back the 'auto-relink functionality.
Because of conflicts, both of these functionality cannot co-exist unless we make some significant changes to the relinking experience.
As we understand, 'replace all' was a important workflow for most of you, so we decided to quickly bring it back while working on the overall link panel revamp which is going to take sometime.
Thanks
Saurav Agrawal
Product Manager
Adobe Illustrator
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BTW, there is this special dedicated request:
Relink / replace all instances of the same image at once
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/34174264It won’t allow to achieve all the things users were able to do with Apply to / Replace All, as I see it, but anyway.
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Taryn Cassell commented
The new "search for missing link" checkbox only works if you are looking for multiple different missing links in a folder. I am needing to replace all copies of a file with a new one. For instance I need 10 yard signs on a sheet, and I want to re-link the old artwork to the new artwork, this no longer works with the current version of Illustrator. We just need the "Apply to All" button back . I have went back to the last version of Illustrator because of this problem, we use this feature all the time and it severely slows down our workday
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monokano
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https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/replace-missing-links.html
Adobe does not seem to intend to solve this problem.
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Stephen
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The apply all is no longer appearing when the file opens and there are missing links in Adobe 28.5. This needs to be rectified.
Also the when we do relink to a missing file instead of finding all the links in that folder they have to be replaced individually or through the new "search folder for all links" feature instead of automatically like it used to.
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hiroyuki cat commented
"Relink missing files automatically" works fine if the file names are the same, but without the [Apply to all] checkbox, you can't do a bulk replace of multiple alias files.
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Fernando
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Comigo aconteceu novamente!!! Favor Adobe Resolver!!!!
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J Kaufman commented
Same problem here. Numerous people complaining about this online, Adobe is silent. These software engineers have NO CLUE how real-world people use this software.
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I use Illustrator to impose a single design multiple times on a page, and have templates set up for this. When setting up the template, I used a generic file (let's call it BIZCARD01.AI) and then deleted the file, so that every time I open the template it wants me to locate the file. I used to be able to click "Apply to All," find the new file I wanted (let's call it BIZCARD NEW.AI), and it would automatically place that new file multiple times on the page, per the template. We no longer have that option, see attached screenshot. The "Apply to All" option is missing.
And NO, the "new" option on the next dialog box for re-linking files in the folder DOES NOT WORK the same as the "Apply to All" option. I want to link files with DIFFERENT file names, not have Illustrator keep looking for the filenames it already knows.
Numerous people complaining about this issue online, and so far Adobe has done nothing, as usual.