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bgranowski
bgranowski
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November 4, 2024
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InDesign Files Vanished: Seeking Help to Recover Lost Versions

  • November 4, 2024
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5 InDesign files (all different saved versions of the same original file) that I have been working on since August of this year have all disappeared and are not visible anywhere in my file structure. I had the latest one open and was working on it as recently as last Monday, and now all versions of that file are gone without a trace. Has this happened to anyone? I am going to have to recreate it from the jpgs that I exported and sent to the client. What a nightmare!

 

 

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James Gifford—NitroPress
James Gifford—NitroPress
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November 4, 2024

Empathy — we've all had something like this happen. But it's very unlikely InDesign would or could do anything but mangle or delete a current workfile.

 

What platform are you on, and where/how are you storing your files?

 

A consistent backup plan is a good idea, and besides making at least daily Save-As copies of important projects... they should be moved to a more secure backup location on another drive or server or storage device at least once in a while. It's all too easy to so something like select all files/delete, without having any intention of doing so. Thoughts for the future...

bgranowski
bgranowskiAuthor
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November 4, 2024

I am on a Mac and I store my files on a Samsun Portable SSD external hard drive. The files were something that I was regularly opening and working on and saving in versions -- I had five different versions of the INDD saved as of last Monday, along with exported JPGs from all the versions, and now they are all gone except for one old file from June in the outer folder that is a PSD. Thanks for your help.

bgranowski
bgranowskiAuthor
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November 4, 2024

Also, there is nothing relevant in the trash, and I imagine if I accidentally select-all-files-delete, there would be some version of it in the trash? But perhaps mistaken.

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