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  1. Drag and drop to place file sometimes embeds instead of linking

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    Chris Graham commented  · 

    I found out the cause for this by accident! If you have caps lock on, it will not place a file as a link by drag and dropping. So just make sure you have caps lock off if you want the files to be a link when drag and dropping!

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    Chris Graham commented  · 

    I'm running into the same issue when drag and dropping EPS files. This has to be a bug of some kind. I can't figure out why it would switch between linking and embedding without changing any options. It's the not knowing why that really bugs me. But as you stated, you have to go to File > Place to get the files to link. It's a few extra clicks but that can add up when you've got a lot of files to place!

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