Accidently closed indesign document without saving

I hope Adobe goes bankrupt for the overpriced atrocities they force us to pay. Thank you for nothing and for contiunally making our lives worse. Switching to anything else after I do this doc that your horrible software is responsible for not saving.

I haven’t tried this, but if you have an automatic backup system, like Time Machine or BackBlaze you might be able to recover the temporary file InDesign creates when you edit a file.

For example, I have the file “V2021 fact sheet A10.indd” open. In the folder with that file InDesign has created “~2021 fact sheet a1~sr8a)c.idlk”, a temp file where edits are kept until I save and close hte file. I have no idea if restoring that file will recover your lost work. Worth a try.

Did you try to open the file in drop down menu/open / look under recent files?

Always save. Use a tag like 'JUNK' if you don't think it's something you will need, a work or test or intermediate file.

You can always delete it later.

I find myself opening a surprising number of "junk" files for one reason or another...

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Hi @LoMa ,

I'd say you cannot get it back. You never saved the document this whole day long?

So it's gone; unless perhaps there was a backup running in intervals while you worked with e.g. TimeMachine when on MacOS. But even then it's unclear if you are able to open a not saved file in the state of an open document. I must admit, that I never tried to retrieve something like that from TimeMachine. I assume that you'd need not only the InDesign document, but also the cache files InDesign constantly creates and saves when you switch to a different spread for example…

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Professional )

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