How to replace/update all images at onсe in Resource manager

[anto]

I moved a photos to another folder. How to change all paths at once.

[walt.farrell]

If you moved them all to the same folder, and the Resource Manager says they are Missing, click Relink and navigate to the one it wants you to find. It should then update all of them that it finds in that folder.

[anto]

2 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

If you moved them all to the same folder, and the Resource Manager says they are Missing, click Relink and navigate to the one it wants you to find. It should then update all of them that it finds in that folder.

Not everything is as simple as it seems.
The files are scattered in folders. I made a copy of the original file. I packed the original file and collected the photos. The copy of the file uses the same photos scattered in folders. I don't want to pack the copy, I just want to specify the folder of the original package in the Resource Manager. But Pablisher doesn't allow me to do that.

[walt.farrell]

39 minutes ago, anto said:

I packed the original file and collected the photos.

I don't understand what that means. Can you describe the steps more completely?

If you mean that you made a .afpackage file, you should just be able to Open that file, and it will find the images in its Images folder.

Or, using the original file, you could use the Collect function in Resource Manager to copy everything to a single new folder.

[anto]

4 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

I don't understand what that means. Can you describe the steps more completely?

I have files in two languages that use the same photos. From the main file, I made a package using Save as package. So I have all photos in one folder. Another file, a copy (in another language), uses the same photos as the original file. Why make another package from this file when you can just specify the folder with the original photos?

[walt.farrell]

Thanks for those additional details.

It would have been better for you to have Collected the photos into a single directory before making the second document.

But here is a workflow you could try now.

1. Create a new empty folder.
2. Open the second document, and in Resource Manager choose the Collect function.
3. In the Collect dialog, specify the folder you created in step 1.
4. That will copy all the Linked photos into the new folder, and update the document to point to them.
5. Close the document.
6. Rename the folder you created in step 1.
7. Open the second document again, and when prompted for the missing images, choose Resource Manager.
8. Click on Relink.
9. When prompted, point to the folder you created as part of the Package when you packaged the first document. Now all the images in the second document should point to that package folder.

Note that you will at this point have a .afpackage document (first document) and a .afpub document (second document). You could Save the first one as a .afpub, so you would have two .afpub files instead of a mix of .afpackage and .afpub. But you cannot get both as .afpackage files unless you want to have a duplicate Images folder.

[anto]

It worked, thank you

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome