Someone mentioned once you have your file how you want it to save it then move the images to another folder to "confuse" Illustrator then it will let you update all links. That is just not possible when you are sharing a server across a company. They really just need to make it like InDesign where:
A) it just remembers
or
2) you have import options
or
iii) you can relink via a folder you know everything is in, whether it is many instances of one link or many different links
Someone mentioned once you have your file how you want it to save it then move the images to another folder to "confuse" Illustrator then it will let you update all links. That is just not possible when you are sharing a server across a company. They really just need to make it like InDesign where:
A) it just remembers
or
2) you have import options
or
iii) you can relink via a folder you know everything is in, whether it is many instances of one link or many different links