Word document the image part with relationship id rid8 was not found

[avenel]

Hi


My friend was using Microsoft office/word 2016 to finish an assessment.


He was modifying and filling the word document that was on a portable hard drive attached to his laptop,,,,,means he didn't copy the document from the external hard drive to his laptop.


he ended up with embedded image to be replaced with :

the image part with relationship id [B][U]rid8[/U][/B] was not found

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Google didn't reveal many solutions and I did try "Open and Repair" solution but no joy



Thanks

 

[wither 2]

Did you ever get this resolved?

 

[avenel]

Not yet , not much on internet

 

[wither 2]

I found one with a different rid error bit it should work. Hopefully, this doesn't happen with every file-

1) Rename .docx file to .zip
2) Extract the files into it's own folder.
3) Look in the word\_rels folder for the file document.xml.rels

4) Open this file in notepad or your basic text editor of choice and search for your rID string.
5) In my case, the target bit in the example below was set to NULL
<Relationship Id="rId39" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/image" Target="media/image30.png"/>
6) To fix, put in a filename that exists in the media folder.

7) Save the file, ensuring the filename is the same as before (make sure notepad or your editor of choice doesn't mangle the filename by adding .txt to the end).

8) Zip up all the files and folders back into one file again.

9) Rename your .zip file back to .docx, open in Word and you should be sorted.