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maitena98A4
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June 2, 2022
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File Recovery: Repair Service is Temporarily Unavailable

  • June 2, 2022
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Hey everyone,
I aparently have a damaged InDesign file. When i try and open the file i get a mesage saying "InDesign detected that the file "filename.indd" is damaged. Would you like us to try and repair the file? The file will teporarily be processed on our servers."

This runs for a few minutes then stops halfway and i get this message "indesign could not repair 'filename' the repair service is temporarily unavailable please try again later"

 

It is a very big file. There are around 150 pages. The project was done but I just had to do a few corrections. I have the PDF export of the complete file i could potentially work with. 

 

 Is there a fix for this? How could I access earlier versions of this? Please help.

I've attached the file in my google drive because it exceeds the limit here

 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1QPa0La9fdjVgiGxK54obuOKktO2he5Gi?usp=sharing 

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Correct answer maitena98A4

Oh my god you beautiful soul. You've just saved my ass. This was about 250 hours of work over 2 years! I had other copies but hadnt done a major save in a while as I was pretty much complete with the project.

If any body else has this problem. This ended up working for me
http://kasyan.ho.ua/indesign/all/indd_recovery.html

 

Thank you so much Peter! I hope you have an amazing day and some great karma coming your way ❤️
Thank you to all who replied so quickly to this and took time out of their day

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Peter Spier
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Peter SpierCommunity Expert
Community Expert
June 3, 2022

Some othwer things you can try as well:

Open as a copy.

Manually copy the file to your local drive and open from there if located on a network server of some sort.

Use Kasyan's blind export to .idml script: http://kasyan.ho.ua/indesign/all/blind_open_and_idml-export.html

or his indesign recovery tool: INDDRecovery — a program for restoring corrupted InDesign documents 

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    maitena98A4AuthorCorrect answer
    Participant
    June 3, 2022

    Oh my god you beautiful soul. You've just saved my ass. This was about 250 hours of work over 2 years! I had other copies but hadnt done a major save in a while as I was pretty much complete with the project.

    If any body else has this problem. This ended up working for me
    http://kasyan.ho.ua/indesign/all/indd_recovery.html

     

    Thank you so much Peter! I hope you have an amazing day and some great karma coming your way ❤️
    Thank you to all who replied so quickly to this and took time out of their day

      Peter Spier
      Community Expert
      Peter SpierCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      June 3, 2022

      Glad it worked for you. I've had about 50% success rate over the years, so I figure it's always worth a shot.

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      Manan JoshiCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      June 3, 2022

      Hi @maitena98A4,

      You can email the download link of the document at idfile@adobe.com for the Adobe engineers to try and salvage the file for you. There is no specified timeframe within which you can expect a revert from Adobe guys, so if time is of the essence and you won't mind a paid solution, try the following
      https://markzware.com/products/file-recovery-service/
      -Manan

      -Manan
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        maitena98A4Author
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        June 3, 2022

        Thank you so much for your reply!

        I'll email them right now. I'll also check out that website. Just a big file so its pricey 

         

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        maitena98A4Author
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        June 3, 2022

        I want to add that i cannot open the file and resave it. This is really urgent and have been working on this for a bout 2 years!!

         

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