Cannot open file in Indesign CS5

This is the error message I get:
Please help

Since you've shown us the folder contents it's a good bet it isn't in use (no lock file). And it doesn't look like the file is mis-named as there doesn't seem to be anything else there that would be the .indd file (but just in case, open it in TextEdit and paste the first few lines here so we can see what the file header says), so the most likely case is the file is damaged. Is that on a removable device of some sort?
You can try the tool at Repair corrupt InDesign Adobe files on Mac OS X or send me a link to the file by private message and I'll try the recovery tool I have for Windows.

Similar Messages

How do I open files in InDesign CS5.5 CS5?

How do I open files in InDesign CS5.5 CS5?

Hi, are you trying to open up a CS5.5 document in CS5? If so you need to export the docment while in InDesign CS5.5 to the IDML format.
Please refer to this document: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/indesign/cs/using/WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d52a.h tml#WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d4da

Can't Open Files in InDesign CS5 Made with CS5.5

I created a file in InDesign CS5.5 and can't open the file in InDesign CS5. I received many errors stating that I needed to update my plugins. Not sure what that means. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Grant Novey

AdobeMonopoly9999 wrote:
Try telling students who barely have two nickels to rub together these days that they have to outlay $400-500 dollars every year to be able to keep up to date with the programs at their schools. I can barely get these kids to package their files properly and now they have to remember to export their files to idml and remember to put them in their folders before they copy it onto their external hard drive to bring it home to work on. Is it really necessary to update every bloody year and charge these kids so much to upgrade. And this time only for a .5 upgrade? A lot of these kids have parents that are sacrificing every thing to pay for their kids college education. What message is adobe sending to these kids? That the study of graphic design is only for the rich who can afford to upgrade every year. Have a heart in this economy.
Your points about the hardship of expensive learning materials, and the extra work involved in saving to IDML, are all valid.
If/when online applications come into common use, some of the issues may fade away, because the newest and older versions will always be available for a user to choose from.
In the meantime, perhaps some of these suggestions will be useful:
* Adobe's volume licensing plan (VLP, I think) and transactional licensing plan (TLP) have been mentioned in this forum, in regard to the option of buying licenses for earlier releases. My thought is that your school could "freeze" their installations at a useful recent release, to extend the useful life of a student's own purchased educational copy. Search Google for terms like "InDesign volume license transactional license" without quotes. Also, perhaps someone who knows more about these options will jump in here.
* Unless there are compelling class needs for the new features in new releases, there's no need to upgrade. Depending on the course's level, some features wouldn't be needed for lower-level classes; for the higher-level classes, use the newer software.
* If possible, allow students to install DropBox, or other online storage software, on the school computers, so they can save files remotely, and access them from any Internet connection. This won't eliminate the saving to IDML step, but it can eliminate the copy-to-transport-media step, simplifying things a bit. There may be security and other IT issues here to be worked out.
* For students who intend to enter the design career, it may be less expensive to buy an upgradeable non-educational license, or even - shudder - a subscription. Subscriptions, I believe, can be activated and deactivated for specific periods, like rental cars, so, for example, if/when a student graduates and takes a job where the employer provides the software, or the student doesn't need the software for a semester or quarter, the subscription can be idled, and there's no cost. If the student becomes an independent designer, the subscription can be reactivated when there's work to be done. I believe Bob Levine once posted a comparison, on this forum, of cost-to-license InDesign, for subscriptions vs. other licensing methods. Bob?
Sometimes folks compare the ongoing cost of software and upgrades to other industries and careers that don't seem to have the same issues. However, the tools needed in many industries and careers are no longer so static, as in the past. Carpenters who worked with manual tools could use hammers, screwdrivers, etc., until they wore out or broke, but the introduction of electric nail drivers, screwdrivers, and drills forced production carpenters to upgrade their tools. Perhaps the increased output of mechanized tools balanced their increased cost. Draftsmen's triangles, T-squares, pens, etc., don't need upgrades, but there have been about 20 AutoCAD software releases for them to keep up with.
Recently I had to replace my 1991 stick-shift car with a "new-to-me" 2005 model. It's like all the newer cars I've rented at times - automatic everything. I've done most maintenance and repair on the old one, and I always carried tools in case something broke on the road, and I could fix it myself. The new car is a disaster; the only fixing and maintenance I might possibly do is change a flat tire, add fuel, window-washer juice, oil, power brake and steering fluids, wash the exterior, vacuum the interior, set radio-station presets, and change the battery in the remote-control device that opens and locks the doors, and activates the entire computerized beast. There's nothing for me to do but open the doors, get in, turn on the engine, and aim in some direction.
Mechanics, whose basic-level wrenches and ignition-timing strobe lights were capable of doing an amazing range of tasks over decades of model changes, now need annual expensive software upgrades for the computerized tools that troubleshoot and maintain the modern rolling computers that have replaced cars as some of us knew them.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
Peter Gold
KnowHow ProServices

Cannot Open File on InDesign 5

Hi
I am trying to open an indesign file using CS 5 and an error come sup saying: "Cannot open "file name". Please upgrade your plug-ins to their latest versions, or upgrade to the latest version of Adobe InDesign."
Above that it has a list that looks like this
TEXT.RPLN
GENERIC PAGE.RPLN
GRAPHICS.RPLN
XML.RPLN
HYPERLINKS.RPLN
FORMFIELD.RPLN
DOCUMENT FRAMEWORK.RPLN
DYNAMICDOCUMENTS.RPLN
Where do I find these plug-ins?

Peter, sorry. I was not intending to insult any of you forum people, and I do appreciate your comments. I was just frustrated at Adobe's lack of assistance, even when I call tech support. Very abrupt, and not helpful at all.
That said, you might like to hear the next bit of news: after our exchange on Monday, I was disgusted and left the software alone for a day. Then yesterday I was using Illustrator, and that dratted Acrobat Reader had again assigned itself to my pdf files. I changed it again, and shut down Illustrator, ready to try again to get some information from the forum and tackle the InDesign problem again. Lo and behold, InDesign suddenly works again!!
I have no idea what fixed it (and I've been checking to see that it still works - sort of like checking if the baby is breathing!! - and so far so good. I'm absolutely stunned. Again,the problem didn't resolve after I used 'speedy pc' but only after I told Acrobat Reader XI that it wasn't the default reader.
Any idea what Acrobat is telling the rest of the programs to make that happen? Or, if not that, any idea at all what would have caused the 'transparency.rpln not loaded' error message? The only other thing I can think of is maybe the buffer got overloaded, or not enough room on the hard drive or overloaded ram chips. Any of that make sense in your experience?
LMP Graphics

.indd files all greyed out, cannot open from within Indesign CS5

Dear all,
On a iMac g5 i7 with Indesign CS5 (7.0.4).
Since yesterday all .indd files are greyed out when trying to open them from Indesign (command-o).
From Finder they open fine still...
Can't find anything on the web.
Clues?
Thanks,
Dirkjan

Indeed, you clearly need to find the source of the problem.
In my limited experience, this kind of thing happens when some program misbehaves and causes the LS Database to get corrupt. This usually happens as a one-time event, so rebuilding is an easy solution.
In your case, obviously the problem is chronic, so you will need to get to the bottom of it.
There is no reason to assume that InDesign is at fault. I'm afraid I don't have any tips for you. Contact an Apple support path, I guess.

Cannot open file exported from CS5 as .idml into CC2014.

I'm trying to open a file created in InDesign CS5 in the newest CC version of InDesign.
It is a large (2GB) file comprised entirely of placed images.
I found a thread that suggested exporting as idml.
I did export from CS5 as idml which made the file size a mere 195 MB.
When I tried to open it in CC2014 I got the error message:
Cannot open the file "name.indd" Adobe InDesign may not support the file format, a plug-in
that supports the file format may be missing, or the file may be open in another application.
I had quit from CS5 before attempting to open the file in CC2014.
I had thought that exporting as .idml would change the file type suffix from
.indd to .idml but I'm not in the weeds enough to be sure about that.
Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance.
Roger

I had thought it might be.
I preserved my original (created in CS5) and saved a copy
to try it in CC 2014. The copy wouldn't open in CC.
I deleted this copy and tried again with a new copy
Tried to open in CC - no go.
Opened the new copy in CS5 - no problem.
If the file were corrupt, would it still open in CS5, or is this
a forward compatibility issue?

Cannot Open files in InDesign CS4

Yesterday I was working on a file located on a network computer. I have been working on this file for a month or so, everytime it worked just fine. Today I come in to work, and Indesign does not wan to open the file it gives me this error: Cannnot open the file "XXXXX.indd". Adobe InDesign may not support the file format, a plug-in that supports the file format may be missing, or the dile may be open in anotther application.
The weird part is that I have been working on this same file many time without problems. And this is not happening on my computer only but on my co-workers computer as well. We can open any file but files from this network computer cannot be open. Even the file and all the files in this network computer cannot be open and the Indesign Icon doesnt show next to the file name.
Has anybody gone though this? Please shine some light.
Thank you!

I have confirmed it is the Cryptolocker. It came in from a coworkers computer and infected our network drive. I do have a good antivirus but it didnt come from my end. I have been reading online quite a bit and there is no solution other that recovering from back up which I do not have, or paying the ransom. Either way I apprciate your help, and the time you have invested in this matter.
Thank you!

Opening file crashes Indesign CS5. What now?

I was able to find a discussion about this, but it seem like it ended without a solution.
If this is a font issue, is there a solution to this? I went to Font Book and cleared out any errors from all my fonts.
I created multiple backup files for this particular file and none of them open. All of them crashes my Indesign CS5.
Any suggestion on what I can do?

thanks John. The font thing worked.
Great. What do you have to do around here to get Correct Answer points, anyhow? ()
Anyhow, I guess I should post the relevant stack trace in case other people have the same problem and are searching for it, since it got edited out above:
Thread 0 Crashed:
0   AdobeBIB                       0x0009aef1 BIBInitialize2 + 41217
1   AdobeBIB                       0x0009a9ea BIBInitialize2 + 39930
2   AdobeBIB                       0x0009ac5a BIBInitialize2 + 40554
3   AdobeBIB                       0x00099bc6 BIBInitialize2 + 36310
4   AdobeCoolType                  0x00ccee48 0xcce000 + 3656
5   AdobeCoolType                  0x00d2ce4b CTCleanup + 1719
6   AdobeCoolType                  0x00ce06c1 0xcce000 + 75457
7   AdobeCoolType                  0x00cd3352 0xcce000 + 21330
8   AdobeCoolType                  0x00ed6bc8 CTCleanup + 1745972
9   AdobeCoolType                  0x00ed6863 CTCleanup + 1745103
10 AdobeCoolType                  0x00eba4d2 CTCleanup + 1629502
11 AdobeCoolType                  0x00ed6db4 CTCleanup + 1746464
12 AdobeCoolType                  0x00ed71a0 CTCleanup + 1747468
13 AdobeCoolType                  0x00cdffdd 0xcce000 + 73693
14 AdobeCoolType                  0x00dad790 CTCleanup + 528380
15 AdobeCoolType                  0x00d8635c CTCleanup + 367560
16 AdobeCoolType                  0x00d225b0 0xcce000 + 345520
17 ...be.InDesign.Optical Kerning 0x227df3dc GetPlugIn + 8172
18 ...be.InDesign.Optical Kerning 0x227dfff4 GetPlugIn + 11268
19 ...be.InDesign.Optical Kerning 0x227e4bce GetPlugIn + 30686
20 ...be.InDesign.Optical Kerning 0x227e699f GetPlugIn + 38319
21 ...be.InDesign.Optical Kerning 0x227df056 GetPlugIn + 7270
22 ...be.InDesign.Optical Kerning 0x227dc3d1 0x227d9000 + 13265
23 ...be.InDesign.Optical Kerning 0x227dabaa 0x227d9000 + 7082
24 ...be.InDesign.Optical Kerning 0x227da890 0x227d9000 + 6288
25 ...be.InDesign.Optical Kerning 0x227db6cc 0x227d9000 + 9932
26 ...InDesign.Paragraph Composer 0x1f9e651e GetPlugIn + 650894
27 ...InDesign.Paragraph Composer 0x1f95de34 GetPlugIn + 92068
28 ...InDesign.Paragraph Composer 0x1f96bb99 GetPlugIn + 148745
29 ...InDesign.Paragraph Composer 0x1f99b0f3 GetPlugIn + 342627
30 ...InDesign.Paragraph Composer 0x1f99eb3b GetPlugIn + 357547
31 ...InDesign.Paragraph Composer 0x1f9a9ab6 GetPlugIn + 402470
32 ...InDesign.Paragraph Composer 0x1f9a7a91 GetPlugIn + 394241
33 ...InDesign.Paragraph Composer 0x1f94ae46 GetPlugIn + 14262
34 ...InDesign.Paragraph Composer 0x1f94f3c5 GetPlugIn + 32053
35 ...InDesign.Paragraph Composer 0x1f947fd9 GetPlugIn + 2377
36 com.adobe.InDesign.Text        0x1e0f39b6 GetPlugIn + 3971110
37 com.adobe.InDesign.Text        0x1ded0ac2 GetPlugIn + 1730866
38 com.adobe.InDesign.Text        0x1de9cef1 GetPlugIn + 1518945
39 com.adobe.InDesign.Text        0x1deb91ed GetPlugIn + 1634397
40 ...obe.InDesign.Spelling Panel 0x1a861e15 GetPlugIn + 102069
41 com.adobe.InDesign.Linguistics 0x1a7471a7 GetPlugIn + 127879
42 com.adobe.InDesign.Linguistics 0x1a747789 GetPlugIn + 129385
43 com.adobe.InDesign.Linguistics 0x1a745b75 GetPlugIn + 122197
44 ...adobe.InDesign.AppFramework 0x195f3f65 GetPlugIn + 242229
45 ...adobe.InDesign.AppFramework 0x195f4e8c GetPlugIn + 246108
46 ...adobe.InDesign.AppFramework 0x19596d28 0x19594000 + 11560
47 ...adobe.InDesign.AppFramework 0x195bc4fa GetPlugIn + 14282
48 com.adobe.InDesign             0x0000288b main + 187
49 com.adobe.InDesign             0x000027a6 start + 54
(I'm still not sure what the AdobeBIB library is, but the CoolType and Optical Kerning are big enough hints, I think.)

I get the message "cannot open file..InDesign may not support the file format, a plug-in may be missing or file may be open in another application. This is a pdf file created by InDesign

How do I get the plug-in needed. I have updated InDesign, Acrobat and all other software but didn't help.

InDesign cannot open a PDF natively. You can Place pages from the PDF as linked images, or you can purchase a commercial plugin from Recosoft or Markzware that will convert PDF to InDesign.

Cannot Open Files in PS CS5

Hi folks..I am unable to open files/create new files in Photoshop CS5....the P logo in the top left is greyed out (don't know if this is significant)..
Can anyone help here?
Thanks!
Debbie

The Ps logo is gray by design in Photoshop CS5.
However, being unable to create or open files is out of the ordinary.
Do you have a display with 1024 x 768 pixels or larger? It's a known issue that the Save dialog won't come up on displays that are smaller than that.
If that's not the issue, there have been several other users who have reported issues opening or creating files in recent days...
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/911210
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/912268
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/915994
Unfortunately I don't think anyone's been able to get to the bottom of what the various folks who are experiencing these failures have in common, or even come up with a workaround short of rebooting Windows. You folks all need to list what hardware and software you have to try to find out what you have in common.
-Noel

InCopy CS6 "Cannot Open File" from InDesign CC

I'm trying to review copy recently posted by my designer. I'm using InCopy CS6 and she recently upgraded to InDesign CC. We never had a problem before, but now I'm getting the following error:
I'm running Windows 8 and she's on a Mac (not sure which OS).
Any thoughts?

For real? I can't believe that the latest version of the standalone InCopy can't play with InDesign CC. My designer is a contractor and just spent a lot of money to upgrade to CC, and my employer didn't want to pay for all of CC, so they just got me Incopy CS6.

INDD CS6 error: "InDesign cannot open files in the "InDesign CS5.5 Document" format.

Working in CS6 on Mac OS X 10.7.5: When I double click an INDD file in the Finder, I get the following error from InDesign:
"The document "doc name" could not be opened. InDesign cannot open files in the "InDesign CS5.5 Document" format."
This just started recently and I have not been able to figure out why. I have not updated INDD or OS X. I can't think of anything else that changed, other than maybe a Java update. Have not updated to the latest OS yet.
The files I'm trying to open are files I created with CS6 - as recent as a few minutes ago. I can open them fine using the File>Open command in InDesign so I can open them, but I can't open them by double clicking them in Finder or dragging them to the INDD icon in the dock.
The info in Finder's "Get Info" window says they are CS6 files set to open in CS6 and I have permissions to read and write. They are not locked.
This is not incapacitating, but rather annoying and slows me down since this is one of the most common ways I open files.
Any suggestsion would be appreciated.

Probably won't work because it sounds like an OS problem of some sort, but you can try trashing the prefs. See Replace Your Preferences

CS5 InDesign cannot open files in the InDesign CS5 document format

I'll be working in InDesign CS5 with no problems then at some point I'll double click on an InDesign file and a window comes up and says - InDesign cannot open files in the InDesign CS5 document format. Sometimes when this happens I have to completely reboot my whole system before I can get InDesign to function correctly. Is this a flaw with CS5? Did not happen with previous versions. It doesn't always happen but I can't figure out what causes it. Would appreciate anyones help. I'm getting to really HATE InDesign!!

I have not uninstalled and reinstalled, but I did just switch over to another workstation using Time Machine. The previous system was Leopard. This one is running Snow Leopard.
I'm not sure how to parse this. When you say "switch over to another workstaiton using Time Machine" do you mean, "started using another machine that happens to be using Time Machine for backups and is also running 10.6 instead of 10.5"?
Or do you mean, "Used the Time Machine program to upgrade from 10.5 to 10.6?" If you mean the second one, well, I can't say I am surprised that things are messed up. And that would make your problem rather different than the other posters, which is good reason for you to have started your own thread (and thus your own solution)....
I'm a little bit leary of getting in and changing things in Terminal, without understanding what I am changing. Plus this is a workstation at work, so if I screw something up, that is not a good things, and I don't have time to spend a day fixing things back up again, with the way our workload is.
Well, you can find a lot of marginal documentation about lsregister and Launch Services, but I wonder whether your understood the ramifications of messing with Time Machine (or maybe I have misinterpretted you!). I'd be surprised if you found another way to fix this, other than uninstall/reinstall.
Good luck.

How to fix file when it says, "Cannot open file " ". Adobe Indesign does not support the file format, a plug-in that supports the file may be missing, or file may be open in another application." It worked one second, I saved and closed the file, then tri

How to fix file when it says, "Cannot open file " ". Adobe Indesign does not support the file format, a plug-in that supports the file may be missing, or file may be open in another application." It worked one second, I saved and closed the file, then tried to reopen and now it won't work. I am using Adobe InDesign CS5. It is the only version on my comp. I have tried opening on another comp & copying the file – same error comes up. PLEASE HELP

First check the version of the document with Jongware's script "Identify.jsx" (ExtendScript/JavaScript).
You can find it here:
[Ann] Identify Your InDesign File
If it is CS 5.5 or above, you need someone to open it in the version the script says and export an IDML representation from that. Another way would be to install a 30days version of CS6 or above (CC) and do it yourself.
In regards of the script showing a result for InDesign files higher than CS6:
CS7 = CC v9
CS8 = CC v10 = CC-2014 or CC2014.1
Uwe

I am in the middle of a job using CS 6, but at the same time opening the Creative Suite apps. I created an InDesign file in CS 6, saved it, and now I can't open it. I'm getting this message: Cannot open file because it was saved with a newer version of A

I am in the middle of a job using CS 6, but at the same time opening the Creative Suite apps. I created an InDesign file in CS 6, saved it, and now I can't open it. I'm getting this message: Cannot open file because it was saved with a newer version of Adobe InDesign CC (10.1). You must use that version or later to open the file." AARRGGHH! So how do I access the file?

Sounds like you opened and saved it in CC, so now you need to go back to CC and either complete the project there, or export to IDML to take it back into CS6.

Cannot open file in Indesign CS5

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for