If you get a copy of Bruce Foster's Archive plug-in, it will do everything for you -- collect all the used graphics (and text insets and other odds and ends) in a new directory structure, while preserving all links and references.
http://home.comcast.net/~bruce.foster/Archive.htm Art Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358 On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Eisenloeffel, Martin <meisenloeffel at equitrac.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have a situation wherein I have a number of documents whose referenced > graphics are peppered across multiple folders on a network. There's a > lot of redundancy among the graphics and many unused graphics as well. > What I'd like to do is consolidate all the used graphics into a single > folder per document and re-reference them into their respective > documents. > > Currently, the best thing I can think of is to break all the links by > moving the graphics where I want them and then updating the graphics to > the right place manually when I open any given file. The trouble is, I'm > looking at multiple hundreds of graphics in total, making it an onerous > task. > > So, my question for the group is two-prong: > > 1. Can anyone offer a better solution? > 2. If I go with what I think is the best solution, is there a way to get > Frame to parse out a list of all used graphics in a given file so I know > what I'm moving? > > Thanks for any help! > > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as art.campbell at gmail.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/art.campbell%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. >