weddingsue Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 I created a brochure on my iMac. I have just got a new MacBook Pro and copied all the files from the iMac to the MacBook by using the backup made on the iMac so all the files are in the same directory on both devices. When I open the brochure on the MacBook all of the pictures are blurred so are shown as missing resources. I can get them to view clearly by just replacing the image, but I can't understand why it isn't finding them as they are all in the same directory. I don't want to have to do this for every image as there are hundreds of them in the brochure. I am missing something obvious? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 I don't know why it would do that, but it may simply indicate that Publisher thinks the images are modified, not missing. There's a Preference setting under General for automatically updating Linked images that are modified externally. You might see if you have that enabled. For a simpler workaround for the issue than manually updating each one: in Resource Manager there's a Relink button. Try selecting all the images then clicking Relink. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weddingsue Posted January 1, 2022 Author Share Posted January 1, 2022 I have got that automatic linking option checked in preferences so that doesn't appear to work. The relinking works - thanks for the tip, I just hope I don't have to do it again when I copy the updated file back to the iMac! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 7 minutes ago, weddingsue said: I have got that automatic linking option checked in preferences so that doesn't appear to work. The relinking works - thanks for the tip, I just hope I don't have to do it again when I copy the updated file back to the iMac! You most likely will have to do that. I am just guessing that the names of the machines are different, or the names of the User Accounts are different on the iMac and the MacBook. This will give the two machines different file paths. It is not good enough that the names of the files and their enclosing folders are the same, the entire file path needs to be the same. walt.farrell 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weddingsue Posted January 2, 2022 Author Share Posted January 2, 2022 You are right, even though the user account name and directory paths are identical it must be because the name of the machine is different. very annoying! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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