Help with recovering a Indesign file 1

[hippogriff]

Hello,

My computer crashed while I had a indesign document open, and now I cant open or recover that file. Does anyone have any suggestions on opening it? Does Indesign make a temp or backup file anywhere that I could try opening? Any info will be much appreciated as I have spent alot of time working on this document.

Thanks!

 

[apepp]

...and i have four pages, 11 x 8.5 size...

andrew

 

[hippogriff]

Sounds good, andrew! I look forward to hearing from you.

Jeff

 

[apepp]

...indeed, sounds good, turning out to be more troublesome than i hoped for...

...initial problem page one, lots of stray background objects causing crashing, so you won't be getting those, stuff underneath the map image...

andrew

 

[apepp]

...OK, good news is i have got the file to save without crashing and preserving some of the document elements, all the pictures in place...

...serious problems with text boxes, so unfortunately you will have to reset that lot...

...i have however managed to copy and paste all text out of indesign and back into it, all of which you will find on the first three pages, the following four have all the pictures in place exactly as they were in the original...

...this is the best it can be i'm afraid, unless you have quark 7 then the file works fine...

here is the link, bottom of page is the download button, its in INX format (from CS3, i don't have CS2), which means you will need the latest update of CS2 to open it, updates available from Adobe website if you need to update indesign:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/kxtkd1

andrew

 

[apepp]

...just noticed, when you download it, you might find it puts a weird extension on the file:

".ychat"

...delete this so the file name only ends with:

".inx"

...so the full file name should really read:

FIXED_47.inx

 

[apepp]

...you will need InDesign CS2 4.05, to open the INX file, which is available here:

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=31&platform=Windows

andrew

 

[apepp]

...you may also have to update the links to the images as well...

andrew

 

[hippogriff]

Andrew,

Do I have to create an account on sendspace to download the file? It says: "Download Link: Please wait... link is loading..." but it never loads. I have tried it a couple times and waited an hour or so and it doesnt seem to be loading.

Thank you!

Jeff

 

[Nocandu]

Hi

I know that this is not a lot of help right now.
But Indesign has a "Save a copy" option right under Save as.

Because I used PageMaker for many years I got into the habit of making a copy of what ever I was working on, in the same folder as the original.

I can't tell you how many times this saved me from loosing a job that was almost finished, when PageMaker crashed and corrupted the file.

I still do that, with Indesign though there has been only one time that I have had to use it.

Every time you save, just click on "Save a copy" it will ask you if you want to replace the existing one. just say yes and it will keep the copy up to date.

If I have been working on something for a week I would die if I lost it, so it's worth the time it takes to make that extra copy.

If the file that is open when the computer goes down is corrupted the copy will still open since it was not in use at the time of the crash.

Of course when the job is done and exported, I copy the exported job to an external hard drive just to be safe.

 

[hippogriff]

Ok, I was able to download the file. It was a matter of turning off my firewall. Andrew, thank you so much for taking the time to help out. You saved me a lot of time and now I dont have to start from scratch. Many thank to you!

Nocandu, I never noticed that option before. Thanks for sharing.

I really appreciate everyones insight!

 

[getdavemoore]

@apepp - you certainly seem to know what you're doing so plase allow me to come directly to you with a related query:
The contents of an InDesign doc have been deleted - the best we can salvage is a .tmp of the file. We sent it to a pro for data extraction but the best they could return was a mountain of code with clumps of text amidst the debris - it's a no-goer.
Do you know of any way to resurrect an InDesign file from its .tmp? (My friend's degree rests upon this (and she has now learned the value of "backup"...)

Dave Moore - tech n00b
YRM Architects Ltd

 

[apepp]

hi dave,

that does sound a nasty situation there...

...if you have tried recovering deleted items using recovery software for your OS and all you can find is a .tmp then you will, in all honesty, have lost it for good. Especially true if the computer has been used for sometime after deletion was realised, the sooner recovery software is used the better before the OS overwrites free space.






andrew

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[stitchessf]

I know this thread is an old one, but I'm hoping you can help me.
I have a file that was created in cs2, and as of yesterday morning gets an error when trying to export it or modify it. It says "indesign.exe has encountered a problem and must close". I downloaded on a different computer cs5 30-day trial to open it with that, and Indesign won't even open it - it automatically closes without any error. If you can help, that would be awesome. Please respond, this is quite urgent!

The file is located at

http://www.mediafire.com/?nwdmyyvgikn

Thanks

 

[Nocandu]

Hi

I got the same thing.
In CS4 it just said "Indesign has stopped working".

I don't have any ideas, sorry.

Mike

 

[spamjim]

Compare that file with a known good file in a text editor. That file is trashed beyond repair.

 

[apepp]

Try this stitchessf, it's a INX file so ensure your updated to the latest version of CS2 (4.0.5 - i think), otherwise you won't be able to open INX formats:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3753740/liteature-circle le_cs3.inx.zip

andrew

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[stitchessf]

Thank you Andrew, I will try it and let you know.