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To loic,

We, Visual Basic programmers, are pretty sloppy about the cases. Sorry for the confusion.

To Eric and Ole,

I should have given a full explanation of what I am doing.

I created an InDesign document with some 50 images linked to it. All the images are jpg files stored in one folder. Then, I replaced all the image files with the blank image files of the same name. I am using this as a template. Furthermore, I deleted the folder of blank image files so that the links are no longer valid.

Now, I get a different set of the image files, all having the same name and size. However, most of these sets are not complete: there are many missing images. What I am trying by script as well as by VB is to check if each image file exists, and then to relink the image frames to the new image files if they exist and to delete the image frames (and pages) which do not have the corresponding image files.

All this works beautifully...almost. One problem is that after the script is executed, I open the document and encounter the "Fix Links Automatically" window. Yes, I choose this option and it does fix everything and I get the desired result. But I wonder why InDesign has to fix the links I thought I have established by script.

As Ole figured correctly, they have the old links. But doesn't Relink re-establish the link with the new image file?

I tried, as Eric suggested,

myDocument.Pages(x).AllGraphics(y).ItemLink.Unlink
myDocument.Pages(x).AllGraphics(y).ItemLink.Relink "c:\...\myPicture.jpg"
myDocument.Pages(x).AllGraphics(y).ItemLink.Update

without any success.

I am not sure of what effect it has, but I tried the iteration in reverse order as Ole suggested. It didn't help, either.

I would be grateful for any further comments. Thank you.