bgeal Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 A colleague and I are working on a shared document that is stored on a shared Synology Cloud Drive. When my colleague makes changes to the document and saves it and I then open it the linked files are missing and I have to relink them all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFisher Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Hi bgeal, I'm afraid the only way around this would be to embed the images within the document. This will make the file size much larger but would avoid the issue of needing to relink images. This can be done in the Resource Manager. (Document>Resource Manager) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgeal Posted January 30, 2019 Author Share Posted January 30, 2019 Hi Thanks for the reply. I still don’t understand why the links are lost when the folder containing them stays in the same place, albeit on a shared drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 45 minutes ago, bgeal said: I still don’t understand why the links are lost when the folder containing them stays in the same place, albeit on a shared drive? It might help if each of you were to open the Resource manager, and display the path name it shows for one of the files, and then each of you provide a screenshot of that information. Perhaps there's some difference in the path names, based on how you're configured/connected to the network drive. -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgeal Posted February 1, 2019 Author Share Posted February 1, 2019 Thanks for the suggestion which proved to be spot on The files on the cloud drive are the ‘master’ and each user has a local (slave) copy of the files with syncing between the master and each slave. This means the user name is included in the file name and as each user name is different the links are lost when user A amends a docment, then user B amends it and then user A opens the document. I’m going to see if there is some way of having ‘absolute’ rather than relative filenames within a Synology Cloud drive system as I am sure there will be many users who wish to share files in this way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 Cant you just hire users that have the same name? fde101 1 To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 If the users are on different computers, you could try moving the local copies to a common path outside of the users' home directories so that their usernames are removed from the equation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgeal Posted February 1, 2019 Author Share Posted February 1, 2019 Thanks, I'll try that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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