Indesign File won't open - diploma thesis gone?

[tino3001]

Hi everyone,

I am working on my diploma finishing the university. And of course: Laptop with Indesign crashed, together with the open Indesign file containing a part of my diploma (mostly text).

After re-installing the whole system (because nothing was working anymore), I tried to reopen the crashed Indesign-file - no success, it seems to be corrupted.

I now intensivly searched Google,, found ID2Q and Q2ID as a good solution - but I didn't find a link to a trial-version and I know noone who has access to it.
The corrupted file is only 4MB.

Can anyone help me?
It is rather important, like always when data gets lost...
Thanks a thousand times...

In case of someone having access to ID2Q and willing to increase his/her karma: I uploaded it to

http://www.mediafire.com/?n35pn25m3loib4t

 

[spamjim]

It does not look good but you could open it in a text editor to at least grab the text to use in a new document. There's something in there about 'post-Fordist societies'.

As you are in university and in a learning mode, this would also be a good time to employ backups.

 

[tino3001]

I tried to open it with a text editor, Window's NotePad didn't work (of course), but WIN Word at least gave me back some of the text files... was a big puzzle and still a lot missing though.

Concerning backups: I made one three weeks ago. So I don't have to start from completly zero.
But three weeks of missing work is still a lot.

It would be great, if someone could give it a short try on the ID2Q-plugin. It's a small file (4MB, only one picture) and I Think it won't take all too long.

If not, then that's how life is like, at least I learned, that I should do my backups more regularly...

Thx so far... ID2Q ?

 

[Hawthorne]

Hi

I'm afraid that it's been my experience that when this has happened to me the files were never recoverable.

I used to get this a lot in PageMaker, but rarely in InDesign.

I would like to point out that just below the save link under the file drop-down there is a button that says, 'Make a Copy", it seems like many people never notice this.

I always do this while I'm working just in case of something like this.

Just click it every time you save, it will make a file called "Copy of XXXX and you are protected, if your file gets corrupted the copy will still be OK.

Sorry that I don't have a solution.

Mike

 

[dabob]

you might look for a file named "XXXXX.idlk" . . . its an automatic backup file for situations like this . . . I have had my computer crash numerous times for any number of reasons and have always been able to get my InDesign work back right to where I was working on it. .. . good luck

The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person doing it. . . .

 

[spamjim]

IDLK files are simply temporary zero-byte files to alert shared users that the INDD file is open by someone else. It is an InDesign LocK file to prevent more than one user from modifying the file at the same time. There is no recovery data in the empty IDLK file.