Cannot edit after reopening a document in InDesign

[Kistaraq Egede]

When I reopen a document in InDesign, I cannot edit anything. Why is that and what can I do?

[Robert Tkaczyk]

What platform - PC or Mac?

What version of the InDesign?

Do you work on local, network or cloud drive?

Have you upgraded InDesign recently? 

We are not mind readers...

[Kistaraq Egede]

1. PC

2. 16.2.1 x 64

3. Network

4. No

I guessed that you were mind readers, that's why I asked the way I did. 😛

[Barb Binder]

Hi @Kistaraq Egede:

Check your Pages panel. If content was inadvertantly added to the parent page and not a body page, this would happen. When you close and reopen a file, it opens to the body pages. Parent page content would be visible but not editable. There are other reasons, but I'm guessing this is the issue.

~Barb

[HARSHIKA_VERMA]

Hi @Kistaraq Egede,

Hope you're doing well!

We would like to follow up on your issue. Are you able to resolve the issue by following our expert advice? Please feel free to update the discussion if you need further assistance from us.

We would be happy to help.

Thanks,

Harshika

[Kistaraq Egede]

Well. It acted like, I had made it in a master page. But I didn't. The masterpage was empty. It is not all my works, that does that. Only sometimes. And I haven't figured out why yet.

I found out that I could free the content one by one by SHIFT+CTRL+click, but I still don't know why they become that way. Can it have something to do with where the files are placed? The two, I had problems with, where placed not where I usually put my own stuff in. 1 on external drive and 1 in another network than where I usually put my work on.  

[Robert Tkaczyk]

If you can "free" objects by Ctrl+Shift+Click then - like @Barb Binder pointed out - your objects are on the Master Spreads.

And you should NEVER work on network drives - you should keep your INDD files locally - with links would be best - otherwise you risk corruption of the INDD file. 

Some may say that you can link to content on the network - but it will drastically slow your work. 

Network storage should only be used for backup and synchronisation purposes.

[Kistaraq Egede]

No, det masterpage was empty. I checked.

Well, at work we only are supposed to save on our network, so colleagues can access the file. So saving on internal drive is not an option. And most of my work has no problem with the network saving. 

[Robert Tkaczyk]

Can you share your file?

You should work locally and backup remotely - network / cloud. 

Maybe you don't have problems NOW - but one day you'll learn the lesson the hard way 😞

[Kistaraq Egede]

I cannot share my file. I don't have it with me right now.

Yes. I will do that in the future - word on an internal drive and autosave them somewhere else.

Thanks for your time to answer me.

[Peter Spier]

It sounds like you have more than one mater page, and the relevant one is not showing inthe Pages Panel, Try scrolling thatt section to see if there are additional masters...

[Kistaraq Egede]

No. I checked my master pages. And I didn't open them, while I worked on these files because I knew, I didn't need to make master pages.

[Robert Tkaczyk]

How your Layers panel looks like?

[Kistaraq Egede]

The layers are not locked and I checked the master pages. They are not the problem. So I guess, it must be something to do about where I save my files.

[Peter Spier]

Can you sahre a sample file?

[Eugene Tyson]

Hi @Kistaraq Egede 

Did you resolve this?

Several forum experts have requested a sample file - can you provide this?

Thanks