Corrupt file causes InDesign to quit? (URGENT)

[Rhathymia]

I was putting finishing touches on a project, saved, quit indesign, and when I tried to open the file not five minutes later, it made InDesign crash, and I can't open it. I've been working on my university's computers, since they have CS5, so admin settings won't allow me to make any changes to the hard drive, etc, and because it's CS5, I can't open it on my personal computer anymore since I have CS4. Is there any way I can recover this file? Or do I have to start over?

Anything helps! Thanks!

 

[Hawthorne]

Hi

You probably have to start over if the file is corrupted there isn't much that you can do. Though this doesn't usually happen when you are shutting down after saving. It's more likely to happen when InDesign Crashes.

This won't help you right now but I'll point out that there is a Save a Copy button under the Save as Button.

I have't had this problem much in InDesign but it used to happen all the time in PageMaker. So I learned to always have two files for every job. Just hit the save a copy button every time you save the job.

If a file gets corrupted then you always have a backup to revert to.

For future reference this may be of use too...

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/indesign/cs/using/WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d4da.html

Perhaps you could do this occasionally so you could work on your own computer.

Mike

 

[Hawthorne]

Hi again.

One thing you could try is to see if you can open the file on another school computer running CS5, it's worth a shot.

Mike

 

[Rhathymia]

Thanks for the info everyone! It's been helpful--Luckily, our reprographics had a fairly recent edit from our test run, so we were able to get the file back from them