history/undo and saving a doc

[getho]

I just copied a text box by dragging and dropping and ctrl+alt. except I didnt press control and alt, and then overwrote and excellent pithy bit of copy.

No worries, I thought indesign has a million undo steps, I'll just save what I've got then undo back to where it was.  Except when I did that all the hitory up to the save was obliterated.  WHAT? WHY?  And whyu hasn't indesign got a proper history palette?  Is it possibly stored somewhere else?  I have found some clipboard snippets. Is there a way of opening them? I opened them in notepade, was nothing of use.

[Laubender]

Hi getho ,

after saving a document you cannot undo the steps before.

What you probably did was revert to last saved version.
You should have done a simple undo.

Regards,
Uwe

[getho]

If I'd undone from where I was I would've lost everything I'd done up to that point.  I did not revert as I also would've lost everything else I'd done.  Clearing the history on save makes no sense.

[Laubender]

Can you recreate the problem and do a movie clip?
Then post a link to that clip after uploading the movie to e.g. your Dropbox account.

I still do not get the problem.
If you moved a page item—instead of duplicating it—you should be able to undo that with the simple menu command "Undo".

Thanks,
Uwe

[Derek Cross]

As Uwe states, when you Save you Save as is, no going back. It's important when working on a document to make regular Saves, and occasional Incremental Save As's (and external Backups).

[getho]

Everyone is just stating the same thing over. I get it.  Saving deletes the undo history. Totally bonkers.

about those clipboard snippets, does anyone know how to access them?

[Laubender]

Hi getho ,

to prevent you from happening this again, there are some free scripts around that would save a duplicate of an InDesign document before saving. Such a script would be installed as startup-script.

One example by Gerald Singelmann here:

Very simple versioning script | InDesign FAQ

Another example created by Martin Fischer:

Re: How to set up automatic backups in InDesign

Martin's script is still working with InDesign CC 2018.

Or here a script by Gregor Fellenz edited slightly by Kasyan Servetsky:

Save with backup

Regards,
Uwe

[Derek Cross]

Or make an InDesign feature request: InDesign Feature Requests

[Barb Binder]

Hi getho:

If you choose to follow Derek's suggestion, you are not only requesting a History panel in InDesign, you are also requesting a non-linear option within the History panel, like Photoshop.

Once you post the request, you might come back here and post a link to it, so that others who agree with you can link over and vote it up. In the meantime, incremental backups will do the same thing.

~Barb