"Verifying access to ://...."
I have some problem with a file that has linked images pointing to a drive that I don't have access, nor will.
Illustrator will open that file, prompt that there is linked files with broken links buy will show the thumbnail data from linked files, and then will show every 2 minutes a annoying popup trying to connect to this remote address.
There is NO WAY to prevent this from preferences, or from the link panel.
The popup is really annoying, you need to way a couple of minutes, Illustrator will block everything until you can stop the search.
Sadly I cannot share some file, because there is some NDA involving it, but I can share what I think are the steps to reproduce de case
1 - create a file,
2 - link some images from a remote network server folder,
save the file
3 - share the file to someone that no longer has access to that IP address
(the images are not embedded they are just linked images)
Alejandro Chavazza
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Ton commented
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This one looks related, but with embedded images:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/ai-28-5-searching-for-location-of-embedded-images/m-p/14714973#M411908
Why does Illustrator store the path to the files in the metadata when the images are embedded and the path is no longer needed?