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Dropbox sharing for Designers - links to images in Illustrator ai files
I have noticed a problem with opening Illustrator ai files in dropbox. If I link all pictures and open later the same file everything works perfectly. If I open an ai file created by someone else, ma...
- Hey bananasplit, sorry to hear you're having issues with this.
It sounds like the links you're referring to are relative links and you might be better off using absolute links instead.
I won't be able to offer any help with that though as it falls outside of our remit.
That said, I'm not aware of a way to achieve what you had in mind, but I'll leave this thread open in case another user on the Community has something to offer here.
Let me know if you have any other questions in the meantime.
Our design agency has been experiencing some issues with Illustrator and links on Macs. If User A creates an Illustrator file with images, closes the file and reopens it, it's fine. However, when User B opens User A's file, the links are all missing and we have to relink everything despite being on the same shared Dropbox. Indesign links are fine, its just Illustrator.
We did do a bit of digging to figure out how to solve this and we understand that links are missing because each of the usernames is different on each Mac. We did come across the solution to create a new user on each computer with the same username but this would require a lot of work moving programs and files over that are outside of Dropbox.
There was another solution we found which was moving the Dropbox folder to a generic location not dependent on usernames but we aren't too sure what an example of a generic location is that isn't an external server (we used to use a server but it was too slow which is why we moved to Dropbox)
Do any other designers have the same issue and how have you solved them?
Walter
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHey bananasplit, sorry to hear you're having issues with this.
It sounds like the links you're referring to are relative links and you might be better off using absolute links instead.
I won't be able to offer any help with that though as it falls outside of our remit.
That said, I'm not aware of a way to achieve what you had in mind, but I'll leave this thread open in case another user on the Community has something to offer here.
Let me know if you have any other questions in the meantime.
It sounds like the links you're referring to are relative links and you might be better off using absolute links instead.
I won't be able to offer any help with that though as it falls outside of our remit.
That said, I'm not aware of a way to achieve what you had in mind, but I'll leave this thread open in case another user on the Community has something to offer here.
Let me know if you have any other questions in the meantime.
