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Re: FW: Locating missing graphics-path has to be specified more than once
Subject:Re: FW: Locating missing graphics-path has to be specified more than once From:Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:15:46 -0400
> When we open the hardcopy files, the "missing graphic file" message
> appears. We find the missing graphic file and click Update Document to
> Use New Path. FM is supposed to use the new path to try to find other
> missing files so that you have to specify the new path only once (this
> is what is supposed to happen). But what we've been encountering is that
> we've had to specify the new path more than once, so we end up copying
> every single graphic file into our hardcopy files.
I haven't experienced this. Do you have all the FM patches installed?
Are you saving the document after updating to the new reference path?
Do you see multiple messages per document, or per book? The book won't
be updated to the path - each individual file needs to be updated.
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