My actual InDesign File has become an alias and will not open...how do I fix?

My actual InDesign file (61MB) is listed as an alias in the Finder and will not open in InDesign. This has happened since upgrading to Mavericks. This is a critical file to me; how do I make it just a standard InDesign (.indd) file again? Changing the filname extension does nothing. Help!

OK so I’m late contributing to this thread, but this issue has recently started on one of our SMB shares and has been plaguing me for 6 weeks. I spent some time trying to find a fix and found any number of users who have had this issue, I tried a lot of 'fixes' which I'd cut and past into a text file from various user groups and cannot remember where I picked this one up so apologies to the orginal poster.
I’ve also posted this fix in a number of forums so hopefully others searching for a fix can find it.
You may need to download and install Codekit, I already have it installed and forget sometimes that some of these ‘hacks’ only work with it installed.
Launch terminal and use this command /usr/bin/SetFile -a a followed by the path name to the damaged file.
Something like
/usr/bin/SetFile -a a /Volumes/YourServer/ShareName/FileName.alias
The  easiest way to get the correct path name is to launch Terminal and drag  the damaged file to the command line, Terminal will create the correct  path, now all you need do is paste the command in to the Terminal  command line before the path and hit return.
I  don't expect you will have this issue with InDesign files stored on  your local HD, it only seems to occur with files stored in a share on a Windows server accessed via SMB.
Cheers
Phil

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