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sebarbato_
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June 18, 2018
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HELP - deleted my resume

  • June 18, 2018
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I have a resume that I created in Indesign and accidentally deleted it. The document still shows in the app but says that either "the file doesn't exist, it is being used, or it may be in use in another application." I have a pdf file of it, but the indesign file is no longer on my laptop. Is there ANY way that I can recover it as a deleted file from InDesign? It was very elaborate and took me a very long time to perfect.

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Correct answer winterm

You can't delete directly from InDesign. Well, you can do it, say, in Open dialog, but it's the same as deleting in Explorer/Finder.

That said, InDesign won't help you here.

Try some recovery software, which can help you to recover any recently deleted file. The key word here is recently, while HDD sectors where your lost file resides still aren't overwritten with other data.

To name the one in Windows, I have a positive experience with Recuva (free app from Piriform).

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winterm
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June 18, 2018

You can't delete directly from InDesign. Well, you can do it, say, in Open dialog, but it's the same as deleting in Explorer/Finder.

That said, InDesign won't help you here.

Try some recovery software, which can help you to recover any recently deleted file. The key word here is recently, while HDD sectors where your lost file resides still aren't overwritten with other data.

To name the one in Windows, I have a positive experience with Recuva (free app from Piriform).

Barb Binder
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Barb BinderCommunity Expert
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June 18, 2018

The document still shows in the app but says that either "the file doesn't exist, it is being used, or it may be in use in another application."

winterm, I suspect it is still visible in the Start workspace.

sebarbato, hopefully, the file recovery app referenced above will solve this for you. This is a great time to mention that we always need to have multiple copies of any important files—on a thumb drive, on your free CC drive, on Dropbox, a back-up drive, or on all of them.

In a worse case scenario, remember that you can open a PDF in Adobe Acrobat (not free Reader) and use File > Export to > Microsoft Word or File > Export to > Rich Text Format to quickly extract the text. From there, you can re-lay it out in InDesign, using the PDF as a guide. It never takes as long to recreate a file as it does to create it as long as you have the content. (Hmmm. I wonder how I know that so well.)

~Barb

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