Corrupt or damaged files

I was working on a file in indesign when my indesign crashed. Now when I try to open that file it says "Cannot open. The file is damaged and cannot be recovered." Here is the major problem. Not only did this crash affect this document but somehow damaged every document on my desktop. Every indesign document says the same thing when opening. I've tried to open the documents on other computers and they give the same message. Help! I'm about to lose days worth of work.

Joel has, of course, in a backhanded way, asked if you have backups (and by now you probably know the correct answer to that question should always be "of course I do.").
Guessing that you don't, and if nothing else will work to recover -- and one thing that has worked for me once in the past was to open as a copy, which nobody has yet suggested -- then you should evaluate the cost of rebuilding as opposed to paying $200 each for Q2ID and ID2Q from Markzware if you also have Quark Express. Opeing the damaged files in Quark, then opeing the Quark files in ID often will work to mostly or even fully recover your work. If you don't own a Quark license, Markzware will do it for you for about $200 per file, I think, no charge for failures. Depending on the number of files it might even be cost effective to buy a Quark license.

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