Dest Folder – doubleclick will let you select new Destination folder – all Links from the document should be in this new folder – if not not, then Link won’t be relinked. It’s like Packaging – where InDesign is copying all Links to a new destination – but without copying / movig files.
Find – text you want to find in the Link’s name.
Replace – new text to be used as a replacement.
If you DO NOT specify Dest Folder you can use Find & Replace to change any info in the path structure of the links.
For example, if you have your links in the structure like this:
c:\Projects\2022-05\Magazine_1\Images\Flowers\
c:\Projects\2022-05\Magazine_1\Images\Animals\
c:\Projects\2022-05\Magazine_1\Logos\
c:\Projects\2022-05\Magazine_1\ScreenShots\
you can use Find & Replace to change \Magazine_1\ to \Folder_2\ – without affecting the rest of the structure:
c:\Projects\2022-05\Folder_2\Images\Flowers\
c:\Projects\2022-05\Folder_2\Images\Animals\
c:\Projects\2022-05\Folder_2\Logos\
c:\Projects\2022-05\Folder_2\ScreenShots\
or if you need to move your whole repository to a different drive / folder – you can change c:\Projects\2022- to d:\Backup_2022\:
d:\Backup_2022\05\Magazine_1\Images\Flowers\
d:\Backup_2022\05\Magazine_1\Images\Animals\
d:\Backup_2022\05\Magazine_1\Logos\
d:\Projects_2022\05\Magazine_1\ScreenShots\
If you only want to relink to a new type of file – change extension – then you should leave Dest Folder empty and only use Find & Replace to change the extension – for example .jpg to .psd – all new PSD files should be in the same location as the original JPG files.