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    Closed: Fixed  ·  AdminSanyam Talwar (Senior Lead Software Engineer, Adobe InDesign) responded

    The fix of the issue is now available in the latest InDesign 2024(v19.5.0.084). We recommend you upgrade to the latest version for the fix.

    Kindly update the data source file with the POSIX style path in Macintosh to work with data merge functionality smoothly. Please refer to the helpx https://helpx.adobe.com/in/indesign/using/data-merge.html to know more about the difference between HFS and Posix style paths.

    You can get the actual POSIX path of a file by right-click it in the Finder while holding Option (or right-click, then press Option) > Copy as pathname menu. This can help you explore the correct POSIX paths to ensure you're using them correctly.

    Note: Relative path as such /<foldername>/<filename> is no longer supported after the fix, as it considers the starting “/” as an absolute path. Instead, the recommendation is to omit the starting “/” and use <foldername>/<filename> instead or any of the other existing ways to access the…

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    Hillbillygeek commented  · 

    Working in 19.4
    I have commented in another post about this:
    The issue is: the @image fields in the datafile are ignored, replaced by the path to the imported data file:
    my:path:to:the:image.jpg
    is ignored and changed, in effect, to:
    whatever:other:path:to:the_data: file:image.jpg
    I have tested this, and the merged file works when the data source file is linked from the source folder of the images.

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    Hillbillygeek commented  · 

    I have this issue too: it ignores the @photo path:
    Users:ric:Sites:shn:shnplus.com:classified:0325-19-51-01.jpeg

    and inserts another path: (from the error report)
    /Users/ric/Sites/shn/shnplus.com/_HbG/classified/0325-19-51-01.jpeg
    (/Users/ric/Sites/shn/shnplus.com/_HbG/classified/ is the folder where I store the generated data)

    when I place the data file in the same folder as the images, it generates a proper merged document, even though I don't change the @Photo column.

    with another document: the @Photo path: (which has worked before the update)
    Users:ric:Sites:hcautos:hcautos.com:dealers:kenneth:12-28-01.jpg

    My past path to the csv file is:
    Users/ric/Downloads/
    which gives the "missing image" error:
    /Users/ric/Downloads/12-28-01.jpg

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