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"Consolidate Dependencies" button
To make it easier to store mockups in source control, I'd really like a "Consolidate Dependencies" button. This button would find all of a mockup's external dependencies, like images, and copy/move them all to the mockup's location on my hard drive.
Right now I'm building a mockup in my /Mockups folder, but it references imagery on my Desktop and elsewhere. Now, when I track down all that imagery and move it to the mockup's location, I have to re-link all my images because their locations changed! Argh!
Right now I'm building a mockup in my /Mockups folder, but it references imagery on my Desktop and elsewhere. Now, when I track down all that imagery and move it to the mockup's location, I have to re-link all my images because their locations changed! Argh!
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?Hi Jeff, I hear your pain loud and clear.
I was thinking of solving it in a different way. The plan is to add a "[x] copy to images folder" checkbox in the Image Import dialog, selected by default.
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Inappropriate?That doesn't handle the case of older mockups created prior to the introduction of this feature, though. I have a lot. :)
I think of my problem's solution as "fix this broken mockup" rather than "change how images are imported".
I still prefer a global operation that inspects the mockup's document model for external references and fixes them in one fell swoop.
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This is one of the best points
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Thanks Jeff, the good news is that the two are not mutually exclusive, just like iTunes both copies the mp3s on adding and has a consolidate library option. Thanks for explaining your use-case in detail, very convincing.
No promises on when this will happen, but it's on the list now!
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