HELP! I did not save the document by mistake

[Dacico]

Hi,
I'm working on a project and when I exit InDesign select "Do not save" by mistake (I do not know what happened to me). I've lost a big "piece" of the project. Is there any way to recover my progress? Please i need your help, I'm in panic.

[BobLevine · Accepted solution]

Get to work. Whatever you didn’t save is gone.

[Derek Cross]

It’s a cautionary tale (we’ve all been there!), make regular incrementally named back-ups ( and external copies).

[Scott Falkner]

I always teach people (though I do not always do) to save immediately upon creating a file. Do that before adding a guide, defining a style, or adding any content to a page. Then you’ll always have some saved work, even if you never save again. If you have incremental backups, like Time Machine, then you”re even protected from closing a file without saving.

[Derek Cross]

The additional merit of doing the occasional Save As... is that it removes the crud that builds up in the document over a period.

[Jongware]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Scott+Falkner  wrote

I always teach people ..

Same here.

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Scott+Falkner  wrote

... though I do not always do ...

errmmm … same here too

[Dacico]

I see ... Well, I assume my responsibility. It was my fault, it was a mistake. But I think that InDesign should show a warning after clicking "Do not save", something like “Warnin! Are you sure you want to "not save" the changes made?”. Or I think that InDesign could add a kind of command where every "X" time the document will be saved automatically. A tool integrated in the same InDesign. Anyway, thank you very much for your help and your time.

Regards,

Dani

[Laubender]

danic30313497  wrote

… But I think that InDesign should show a warning after clicking "Do not save", something like “Warnin! Are you sure you want to "not save" the changes made?”. …

Regards,

Dani

And this dialog would have a button that reads: "Do not show again."

Guess what would happen after a while…

Regards,
Uwe