Package file contains an assignment that does not exist

Hi all,

First problem I've ever had with InCopy. We are on an email-based workflow (by necessity not by choice). Designer sends editor an .icap file and the editor returns an .idap file.

This has always worked but on one particular file we got the error message:

The package file contains an assignment that doesn't exist in "FileName.indd." Your package file may be out of date or associated with a different document. How do you want to continue?

- Browse to locate the correct document OR

- Save the contents of the package to disk

We are certain that there is only one InDesign document. We compared assignment lists as they appear in InCopy and InDesign and they appear to be identical. In the InCopy package's folder the list of .icml files is identical to InCopy's assignment window except for one case where the file name varies slightly from the assignment name, but this does not create any link errors and the file name is correct in the XMP file info.

I would be okay with manually importing the .icml files into the InDesign layout using "Place," but there are live endnotes in the document and we seem to lose these if we import using this method.

It would be great if we could force InDesign to not refuse the InCopy return package just because it has an extra assignment (which isn't the case) but no easy option to do this.

I would be fine with editing the XML files if this would help.

Honestly, I'd be happy with any workaround at this point.

Thanks!