Text and tables disappearing

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June 11, 2025
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I am having problem with tables and text disappearing in some of my InDesign-documents with more than 50 pages. The textframes are still there, but all text or tables are gone (as you can see on the screenshot). Has anyone experienced this and know what to do? Adobe has guided me to save on Adobe cloud, and so far it works, but I have all my work on Dropbox and would like it to work there as well. The content always disappears on a page that I am not working on at the moment, so I can only see that it has happened when I scroll through the pages. Once it happened in a document with 246 pages, and suddenly on approx. 10 of them, and only some of the frames on each page.

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Mike Witherell

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Do you share this folder with someone else? IOW, could someone over-write your files?

Mike Witherell

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Nina 2025Author

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No it is only me who can edit.

Mike Witherell

Community Expert

Perhaps exploring an older version of your file will show you when the disappearance began?

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Nina 2025Author

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I save copies of my large documents several times a day, and I have been able to find the text/tables in those versions, but I have not been able to figure out why or exactly when they disappeared (as it does not happen on the page I am working on).

Mike Witherell

Community Expert

Nina, when using Dropbox, or any cloud-based storage, do you have it set to make available offline? This means the file is on your computer as well as in Dropbox.

https://help.dropbox.com/sync/access-files-offline

Dropbox allows you to open older versions of your file:

https://help.dropbox.com/delete-restore/recover-older-versions

Mike Witherell