Saving files for opening in earlier version

[designingal]

I am done paying for their monthly subscription and am trying to save all of my work from the Cloud so  I can hopefully open it in a legacy version. Do I have to save each file in my "Synced files" folder separately? I am looking to grab all of the documents  all at once but that doesn't seem to be possible. Thank you for any tips or advice you have.

[Peter Spier]

I'm sure there is probably a script that can iterate through a folder and export .idml for any .indd files it finds (and hopefully someone will eiother provide that, or a link to it, here).

That said, you'll need to copy all of those files to a local storage location as you'll lose access to anything on the cloud when you stop paying, and unless you already have a perpetual license for a legacy version, along with installers and patches, you're going to have a pretty hard time installing a non-subscription version and it's bug patches.

[Laubender]

Peter said: "I'm sure there is probably a script that can iterate through a folder and export .idml for any .indd files it finds (and hopefully someone will eiother provide that, or a link to it, here)."

Hi Peter,

yes, Peter Kahrel's great Batch Process is the one:

Batch-process (convert/export/import) documents
Peter Kahrel, Updated 1 Aug. 2021
https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/batch_convert.html

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

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