HELP! Yesterday's version of major document is gone!

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January 7, 2026
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I'm working on a long text document in InDesign 2026. I made changes to the 300 pages yesterday, saving frequently, exported it to a PDF and printed it out. I saved in both in Indesign 2026, and as IDML. Today, I find, after making additional changes (and saving frequently), that I'm working in a document that doesn't have yesterday's corrections.

I looked into History, but there are no previous versions. Revert is grayed out.

I'd love to find yesterday's final. If not, would loading the pdf into the indesign file work? And would it automatically flow into the design attributes that are in the program (as it was set up by someone else!).

THANK YOU!!

Correct answer leilagold

I did check. I think mt concern to "save as" ended up wiping out all my history. Odd, but that's the best guess. My son gave me a hand by running a compare file in my pdfs - recent and earlier and I'm updating the file via the marked changes. Not onorous and th easiest solution we could find. Thanks all!

leo.r

Community Expert

I saved in both in Indesign 2026, and as IDML.
By @leilagold

In addition to other advice:

You mentioned that you also saved as IDML. Just in case, did you check the IDML file? Or does it also lack yesterday's corrections?

leilagoldAuthorCorrect answer

Inspiring

I did check. I think mt concern to "save as" ended up wiping out all my history. Odd, but that's the best guess. My son gave me a hand by running a compare file in my pdfs - recent and earlier and I'm updating the file via the marked changes. Not onorous and th easiest solution we could find. Thanks all!

Anubhav M

Community Manager

Hello @leilagold,

I'm sorry to hear about your experience. Would you mind confirming whether the file was saved locally on an internal/external drive, on a network drive, or as a cloud-synced folder or cloud document, so we can better assist you?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Anubhav

leilagoldAuthor

Inspiring

locally, on my computer.

Since I have the corrected version as a pdf, I tried loading the pdf into
the file, but it won't format correctly. Is there any way of doing this via
INDD or via an outside organization?
Thanks!

Bill Silbert

Community Expert

The reports I've seen about the new InDesign Beta feature to open pdfs in inDesign have mostly said that the feature is unreliable. However, there is a third party plug-in for InDesign from Markzware called PDFMarkz that I have tested and found to be excellent. It does a really good job of opening a pdf in InDesign as a regular InDesign document. You can find out more information about it at: https://markzware.com/products/pdfmarkz/.

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