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February 14, 2022
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Indesign and Creative Cloud failing to connect to the internet

  • February 14, 2022
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Good day Adobe Support,

Hope that you are well.

Please be advised that one of our Indesign User's recently reset his Adobe password so that he would be able to upgrade the Indesign application suite which is currently installed on his computer. With that being said, please note that the Creative Cloud application has been unable to work effectively thereafter due to the following errror: We are unable to reach Adobe Server. Please chekc your internet connectivity and firewall settings, then click "Retry". 

 

In addition to the above: the message obtained when trying to open a file in a newer version of Indesign, is as follows: "No Internet Connection: Unable to convert "DDMMYYYYFMP1.indd."
Make suer that you're connectred to the internet, and click "Retry" to try again." 

 

Please note that we tried enabling TLS 1.2 on the Windows 7 computer which the issue persists on. However, this did not manage to resolve the issue.

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BobLevine
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BobLevineCommunity Expert
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February 14, 2022

Windows 7? What version of InDesign?

We need a lot more detail here, but you are in serious unsupported territory.

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    Johann5CBEAuthor
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    February 16, 2022

    Hi BobLevine,

     

    Yes, kindly note that the machine were the issue persists from is a Windows 7 machine and makes use of Service Pack 1 and the Indesign version installed on the machine thereof, is version: 14.0.1 (*64).

     

    Also we are aware that the operating system is no longer supported by Microsoft.

     

     

    BobLevine
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    BobLevineCommunity Expert
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    February 16, 2022

    It's time to move on. There's a limit to how long you can stretch out the lifespan of hardware or software. Someone else may come along with another suggestion, but the service you're trying to use effectively uploads the file to an Adobe server, converts to IDML and then downloads it again so InDesign can open it.

     

    It has been a bit unreliable in the past so you may want to have whomever is providing files in later versions of InDesign to package them and include the IDML file in that.

     

    This is no way to work though as text will reflow and you cannot possibly be successful in a collaborative workflow.

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    Manan JoshiCommunity Expert
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    February 14, 2022

    See if the instructions given at the following link helps

    https://helpx.adobe.com/download-install/kb/unable-to-reach-adobe-servers.html

    If not then get in touch with the support team. To contact support, login to your account and navigate to the URL below. Make sure that the browser has cookies enabled, and all script blockers are disabled.
    https://helpx.adobe.com/contact.html?rghtup=autoOpen
    Type AGENT to avoid bots and talk to a human.
    Also, be mindful of answering anyone who sends you a private message. See the following for more information about scammers
    https://tinyurl.com/y7cfrr7y
    -Manan

    -Manan
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    Johann5CBEAuthor
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    February 16, 2022

    Good day Manan,

     

    Thank you for yuor detailed response, it is much appreciated.

     

    Please be advised that we are currently in the process of reviewing the possible solutions mentioned in the links provided and we will let you know how it all goes. However, we suspect that the issue may be caused by Windows Update as the Windows Update service was not working effectively on the Windows 7 machine, where the issue started from.

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