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Enjoying it so far, thanks Affinity!

One issue - I placed an image on a page, used the Resource Manager to link it (switching off the embedding) and then moved the image to another folder on my disk.

Resource Manager now shows the image as "Missing" (as I would expect) but the Update and Locate buttons have no effect and don't let me re-link the image.

Affinity Photo 2.0.3,  Affinity Designer 2.0.3, Affinity Publisher 2.0.3, Mac OSX 13, 2018 MacBook Pro 15" Intel.

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You would have to use the Replace button to relocate the image. 

Update is for changes made to linked/embedded images

Locate locates an image in the document (more obvious with multiple pages)

 

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11 hours ago, StuartRc said:

You would have to use the Replace button to relocate the image. 

Thanks! That more or less answers a question I had not yet found time to ask or check for myself, that being if linked files use MacOS aliases to keep track of files that are moved from one location to another.

That would be a nice refinement but I don't know if there is a Windows equivalent....

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38 minutes ago, R C-R said:

if linked files use MacOS aliases to keep track of files that are moved from one location to another.

I created an alias to an image, embedded the alias into an APub document, changed the Placement to Linked, and then changed the name of the original image file.

APub immediately popped up a message that the image had been modified, and the Resource Manager showed the image (and its original name) as "Missing".

I then replaced the alias (still with its original name), and changed it from Embedded to  Linked. The Resource Manager now displayed the modified name of the original file. 

I then moved the original file to another folder. The same thing happened - the image was reported as modified, and the Resource Manager showed the image as "Missing". Re-embedding and re-linking brought up the correct file path to the original (not the alias) in the Resource Manager.

So at the moment it doesn't look as though APub tracks OSX aliases. It would be good if it did!

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