Missing Required Parameter 'from' for event 'open' - ERROR?

[AllegraCincinnati]

what the heck does this mean? Happens when I double click some (but not all) ID files (or drag them to dock icon). It pops the error and won't open the file. However using File>Open will open them without the error. (screenshot attached)

I updated to Snow Leopard on Monday and began experiencing this after the 'upgrade'. Is it an Adobe InDesign issue, or something with Snow Leopard.

thanks

[MacGruvi]

Great to hear. I didn't think about the hierarchy of folders possibly having

the character as well, so I'll include that in my responses from now on.

MacGruvi

[ftgben]

A giant step backwards for the Mac platform!

[Elizabeth Casteel]

Removing the # worked, thank thank you.

[AllegraCincinnati]

interestingly enough, leaving the # sign in the name of an Illustrator EPS file makes no bit of difference when opening it. works just fine double-clicking to open.... what gives?!

[jollymac]

I got the same Missing Required Parameter error when I tried to double click to open an indd file. I am using CS4 on OS X 10.4.11.

I don't have problem when I double click to open the same file from Windows XP with CS3.

I don't have # sign in the file name but still have the same error, so I assume # sign is not the only thing to trigger this error.

The good thing is that later found that if I open my Indesign program, and navigate to File   ==> Open... and then locate the same file that failed to open by double clicking, and then hit O.K.   You know what? It opened like a charm.

Don't ask me why, only tell me why.

So try my way if you get this error.

Good luck.

[ftgben]

I already posted this earlier. (possible solution). Because in my

case, I needed to rename the save as.

Ben

[jollymac]

I did followed ftgben's way, i.e. renamed the file name, lower case, no space, no any suspicious sign, and I closed InDesign, and even downloaded all available updates, and rebooted the MacPro, and then double clicked, still no luck for my case.

Then I changed the file name back to the original format, and open InDesign application, and use Open ==> File... and navigate to the file and open. 

Worked! 

In my case I guess it has nothing to do with the file itself, it has something to do with the system, i.e. the system doesn't handle Double Click action correctly.

[ftgben]

good luck with that. Who knows. You could probably have 100 different

files and a handful not behaving themselves. Then if you hold your

tongue right and the moon is full at precisely 2:03 AM, (only on the

2nd Saturday of the month) the file might open for you.

[deanhorn]

jollymac,

Following an earlier post, make sure none of the enclosing folders have an illegal file name character. This may not be a factor in your case but is was in mine. After removing the # in both file name and the folder name, I was able to open the file by double-clicking in Finder without resorting to opening within InDesign.

[ftgben]

I've only had one issue with a file. Opened many. Of course it has

only taken me 15+ years to figure out how to name files to where they

make sense years later.

[Lynder]

I have read all of the posts for this issue and I have found a solution for this problem for my system. I have also gotten a response from Adobe support. I changed a few things in the way I was naming my files and folders. I have recently upgraded to Snow Leopard and have gotten this same error message. All of my folders are filed with a #sign. Everything inside of those folders are as well named with a #sign. All of my work is filed by the month. I removed all of the number signs and used no spaces and this included changing the naming convention of all of my other folders and like magic, I could once again open my files by double clicking. So no more number sign for me.

Also if anyone has had any issues with not being able to open multiple files in Photoshop, check for the naming convention as well of the folder they reside in and also the name of the file.

Lynda

[Guest]

Rather than launching the file externally within the finder simply open

the file within Indesign. This will overcome the "Parameter 'from' for event 'open" ERROR

[Teatime-now]

These references may offer a reason for the problem:

visit CNET MacFixit at

>   http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10401605-263.html?tag=nl.e780   <

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November 25, 2009 11:18 AM PST

UPDATED: Finder not opening files when double-clicked

by Joe Aimonetti

Matt Neuburg at TidBits explains that Apple has officially documented that Snow Leopard's Launch Services no longer considers a document's embedded Creator Code when determining which application to launch when the file is opened in Finder. This change is new to Mac OS X 10.6 and greater and signals a fundamental change in a long-standing Mac programming code.

Neuburg writes:

The relationship between a document and its owning application is called a preferred application binding. Since the very first day of the very first version of Mac OS X, there has been an uneasy detente between the Unix way of binding documents to applications and the former Mac way, inherited from the early days of the Mac OS. Now, in Snow Leopard, users and developers are complaining that the Unix way is being allowed to run roughshod over the Mac way.

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Perhaps this also is the reason that a "saved as" Photoshop file will open in Preview unless Photoshop opening is specially requested as (mouse right click) "open with". Sometimes setting this preference in Get Info seems to be over-ridden too.

[Jill Zylke]

I found that if I drag the InDesign file out of the folder it is in, onto the desktop, it opens with a double-click. When I put it back in a folder, I get that same error. Put it back on the desktop, voila!

[Peter Spier]

Sounds like there's one of theose illegal characters in the folder name, or the name of a folder higher up the tree.

[Jill Zylke]

You were so right! I was thinking there were no illegal characters in the file name so I was safe, but it was in folder #1,so there you go. I changed the folder name and now, no problems.

Thanks! That would have driven me crazy for years.

[RichMorg]

Thanks for this advice. I found that my files included a semicolon in the filenames. I just deleted the ';' and they opened no problem.

R

[xschuesslerx]

Getting same error. No # symbols in any folders or filenames. This is a pretty big error from a pretty big software and operating system. Surprised this there is no solution or explanation from Adobe.

How do you even report a bug?

[AllegraCincinnati]

BIG NEWS!

OS 10.6.3 FIXES this issue. (at least for me, the original poster... YMMV.)

[Jongware]

It gets mentioned in the latest OS update notes, but for some reason only applying to "Rosetta" applications. People more In the Know than me were a bit mystified by this, as Rosetta is the legacy software emulation system -- and surely InDesign is not that old?

OTOH -- who cares, if it solves the problem. And it seems to have been Apple's bug all the way, not Adobe's.

[ftgben]

Try opening the document from within the application (File>open> doc) Then do (save as) and use a different name. Also you might check for spaces in the file names and/or folders

Ben

[Guest]

I don't know if this is everyone's cure, but this solved the InDesign file error:

"Missing required parameter 'from' for event 'open'

Problem: I keep a "Work in Progress" folder. The job folders in that folder have very, very, long names because I actually use the folder name to track job date, due dates and stage I'm in with each job (then I do a screen grab of the extended window showing all jobs, print that out and take it to production meetings). I've been doing this for quite awhile because OSX allows unlimited characters in a folder name.  Example:

10s-Smith(12.5due) • 9.30=pgs due, but pics missing. 10.1=1st Pg Proof out to client, minus 2 missing photos.

Solution: I found out that with InDesign CS4 and Snow Leopard COMBINED, if your number of characters in the folder name exceeds about 125 characters, the InDesign document will not open. No other app that I have loaded including Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, etc. cares—they all open fine. Only InDesign throws up that error. I figured this out because some of my ID files were opening and some were not. Common denominator was folder name length.

So if anyone uses long folder names beyond 125 characters, with an InDesign file INSIDE that folder that pops up this error, that is the cause. The equal signs or number signs etc. had nothing to do with it. At least in my case, I use abbreviations to keep my notes briefer and InDesign is happy. I don't know how it works in InDesign CS5 with Snow Leopard yet. I know this didn't happen in CS3 using Tiger (we just were upgraded our IT is VERY, VERY slow to upgrade our systems & apps).

[BobLevine]

Did you read the entire thread? This was fixed months ago.

Bob

[Guest]

It was fixed in a different way from what I read. I was just offering another reason and solution. Their solutions was different from mine. Just removing punctuation or other non letters did not fix my problem. This did. Also in my case it was not Apple's bug as someone stated, it was InDesign specific. Because all other apps worked as did all other Adobe apps.

[Guest]

I came across the same error message using InDesign CS3 with Mac OS X v.10.6.8. After reading the "correct answer" by MacGruvi, I checked my file names and the that of the containing folder to see if they included the # character. They didn't, but I still got the same error message.

At least in my case the real culprit was the length of the containing folder, which after several trials proved to have to be no longer than 128 characters including the spaces exactly. 129 characters would result in the same error. So pattii55's answer above which I came across afterwards seems to be more helpful than that of MacGruvi. Those for whom removing the # sign worked might want to see if they had too long a file name where the omission of the # character reduced the file length just within the allowed range.