Find media links in Keynote 6

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Find media links in Keynote 6

I have a lot of presentations linked to external media files, and I have moved my external media files around. I'm trying to work out whether Keynote can tell me the name of an external media file which has been linked when the file is not present.

I can select the item and click "Movie" in the Inspector but sometimes the file name doesn't show.

Basically I've forgotten which media files are in some presentations. I still have the media files but in different locations.

Yes, these days I embed the media...

OSX 10.11.6

Keynote 6.6.2

Thanks for any help.

Craig

Posted on Aug 19, 2016 4:07 AM

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Answer 1

Aug 20, 2016 7:33 AM in response to Craig Mitchell

Click the video file on the slide then: Inspector > Format >Movie

clicking the replace button will show the folder the video file was last located and you can then navigate to the currents location and reset the link:

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Answer 2

Aug 20, 2016 9:56 PM in response to Gary Scotland

Thanks Gary. What happens if no filename is listed and clicking on the replace button take you to an empty folder?

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Answer 3

Aug 21, 2016 1:09 PM in response to Craig Mitchell

Plan B is searching your Mac, spotlight will help, in this case type into the search box in a Finder window as below.

Typing in: ".mov" if you know the files were these, it will create a long list but it might reveal the ones you want.

If you want a better search application, down load easy find from the Mac App Store

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