InDesign 20.2... What is going on there? Why all this troubleshooting?

[Fetty Tulli]

Hello everyone!

Since yesterday, I noticed a serious problem about Id. My last job is a 800pages Physics book. There are some things that keep happening every day and i am 100% sure that I solved them the day before

a) I keep change the font style to specific paragraph styles, from medium to bold EVERY DAY! Why they arent be saved? 

b) When I open a previous file, ALWAYS the pictures are moved in some other positions. All the pictures are in Anchor and suddenly the anchor is lost

c) THE MOST TERRIBLE... After the previous update, many files, at the opening, I received the pop up message " The file is damaged", without any advice of recovery. So, I just "lost" 80 pages? 

Whta is happening... 😒😒😒

[Eugene Tyson]

What's your OS and version number and what is your system specs. 

Is it 800 pages in a single document? If so consider breaking it into smaller chunks and using the Indesign Book file (File>New Book) and you can add individual chapters in smaller chunks.

If that's not an option or against doing it... 

If a document is not behaving well then try 
File>Export 
Choose IDML
Open the IDML in InDesign
Save the file as a new InDesign file with a new name
See if the issue persists.

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This is a more extreme fix possibly in your case because of page count but could still potentially work.

It's an aside to the IDML when that's not working 

Create a new file with the same page size and margins 

Open the source document (the one with the pages you want to move) and the destination document (the one you want to add the pages to).

Select Pages:
In the Pages panel of the source document, select the page thumbnails you want to move. You can select a range of pages by clicking the first page, holding down the Shift key, and then clicking the last page in the range.

Access "Move Pages":
Go to the Pages panel menu (the three horizontal lines at the top right of the panel) and choose "Move Pages".

Specify Destination:
In the "Move Pages" dialog box:
Move Pages: The page numbers you selected will be automatically filled in.
Destination: Select the destination document from the dropdown menu.
Location: Choose where you want the pages to be inserted in the destination document (e.g., before a specific page, after a specific page, at the beginning or end).

Click "OK" to move the pages.

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If it's still not working consider rolling back to InDesign 2024

Rollback to a previous InDeisgn version
https://helpx.adobe.com/download-install/using/install-previous-version.html#:~:text=Open%20the%20Cr....

[Fetty Tulli]

Thank you a lot for yous response.

The 800pages book in devided per capital, 20pages every file. So every capital may have more than 4 individual files. 

I will follow your instructions!

Again thank you!

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

[...] The 800pages book in devided per capital, 20pages every file. So every capital may have more than 4 individual files. [...] 

By @Fetty Tulli

Can you clarify it a bit? 

[Fetty Tulli]

Sure. Lets say that I have 12 chapters. Every chapter has 4 sections of 20pages approx each. So, I create for every section a file and at the and I create a book for every chapter

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Sure. Lets say that I have 12 chapters. Every chapter has 4 sections of 20pages approx each. So, I create for every section a file and at the and I create a book for every chapter

By @Fetty Tulli

So 48x INDD files, with approx. 20x pages per file, right? 

Is there a reason why you have it like that? Why can't you have just 12 INDD files = Chapters? 

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@Fetty Tulli

If you're not doing Save As with a new name at the end of the day - and just Save - InDesign is preserving all of the Undo History - that isn't available after you close your file. 

So next time you open your file - InDesign needs to ANALYSE everything, every change you've made - to build "latest" version of the Document... 

Which might lead to corruption. 

[Fetty Tulli]

Excellent! I didn't know anything like that!