Indesign has broken links on a shared dropbox

[maradixon]

has anyone had an issue where. indesign is not linking files on a shared dropbox?

[Mark]

This is almost certainly because Indesign uses links specific to each device and machine (i.e. they are in \Users\Documents\Dropbox and 'users' can be different depending upon the persons name).

You need to make sure everybody has an identical folder structure for this to work

[maradixon]

so we found out that my user name is changing to someone else when it shouldn't be:

Macintosh HD:Users:GDUBS:Dropbox (Swimsuits for All):•••2021 Creative•••:2021_Emails:07_July:070221_4thOfJuly_75%Off 2:246633843FW21_1496_O_COMBO_ROYR_291 copy.jpg

Macintosh HD:Users:kinsellaj:Dropbox (Swimsuits for All):•••2021 Creative•••:2021_Images:Cruise 2021:HiRes:SageFlowy_33923_640747_108.jpg

top is myself, but that is not my username.. bottoms is someone on my team - looking at same linked image and that is her user name.. tried it with all team members.. and all when looking at the same thing, their own user name comes up

that is not happening to me

[Mark]

Everybody will have a different folder structure because their usernames will be different - based upon what they set their Mac up as initially. 

It will work for you as you are the one who made the file

[Basya]

So how do you link a photo in dropbox to an indesign file?