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  1. Autofind Missing Links like in Indesign

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    Done (Available in Beta)  ·  AdminRama (Mgr, Software Development, Adobe Illustrator) responded

    Available in 30.8.54 Beta build.

    Choose 'Auto find missing links from this folder' in the relink dialog's Replace dropdown when relinking a missing image. Illustrator scans the document and silently relinks every other missing link whose file name matches a file in the same folder, including all instances of the same image.

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    Paul commented  · 

    Companies grow and are forced to expand storage all the time. Premiere and InDesign can automatically connect to missing files. Illustrator does not. Files can only be linked manually. With a library of several tens of thousands of files, packaging and transferring each file doubles or triples the amount of storage needed and requires an exponentially large amount of time. Illustrator should be able to link all files automatically, especially if the file structure is exactly the same. If the only problem is a change of the hard drive letter, the program should find the files automatically after selecting the parent folder.

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