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hackeffie - Feb 15, 2006 - 2:26 pm

While working on version S (yes...S) of a layout for my client, InDesign 2.0.2 decided to quit. I have been trying to get that file to open up for two days now and am on a tight deadline. My other files will open, so I don't understand what happened to this one. All of the files I'm working on are on an NT server in my office, but I also downloaded the job files to my hard drive to see if it would open from there...no luck. Please help!

Natobasso - Feb 15, 2006 - 3:42 pm

Howdy!

First, duplicate your nasty ID file and put it somewhere safe.

Now, when the file first crashed there should have been a save file (starts with a line of gibberish characters). Do you still have that? It aids in recovery.

Unfortunately, I've never been able to recover a corrupted InDesign file, but here's another forum that might be more targeted to your question:

http://www.adobe.com/support/forums/main.html

Natobasso - Feb 15, 2006 - 3:44 pm

Here's a thread with ideas on fixing corrupted files:

http://forums.macosxhints.com/showth...threadid=48773

Natobasso - Feb 15, 2006 - 3:46 pm

Search for "recovery" in this document:

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/grou.../m/8901062/p/2

InDesign has an auto-recovery feature that uses the temp file. You'll need that temp file, I think, if you want to recover your file.

In the future save a BUJIC file of all your Mechanicals. Helps you to avoid this very problem, though I know this doesn't help you at the moment.

hackeffie - Feb 17, 2006 - 8:40 pm

Thank you for your help. It turned out to be faster and less of a headache to just redo everything I'd done the day before. Finally the client approved! I'll try to be more careful saving files more frequently from now on.

Natobasso - Feb 18, 2006 - 9:16 pm

Glad you got it worked out, mate.

(Closing thread.)