Crazy document corruption

Hi!
Today I opened a document and found out that large part of it went crazy. I can't even describe it properly. Some pages missing, text blocks disappeared, total mess. I use ID for many years and I've never seen anything like that. It looks like this:
Is it some bug or what? I tried to restart ID then computer - it didn't help. Any ideas? Please help! Thanks!

THis file is corrupted. You could try to export this file and open it again and save as INDD.
If this does not help, I would check the IDML file with a XML tool and have a closer look into pages and layer definitions, there are some "layer names" which you can't find in the layer panel which are responsible for pages and other geometry. Maybe that there must be repaired something i the code. How to you should compare it with a simiar healthy file.

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I'm not sure what you mean by "formatting errors" or "AppleWorks Document Corruption."
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Appleworks Document Corruption?

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I would like to export Appleworks documents located on an OS9 drive, to a 10.4.11 drive with an updated version of iWork '08.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "formatting errors" or "AppleWorks Document Corruption."
If your AppleWorks document is a word processing one made/last saved with AppleWorks 6, Pages will open it. Because AppleWorks does not normally add its .cwk extension to the file name, Pages is likely not going to recognize it as an AppleWorks file &, therefore, one it can open. You can set AppleWorks' preferences to add the .cwk extension in Preferences > General > Files. You can also add the .cwk extension to the file name in the Finder in either OS 9 or OS X. In OS X, see this user tip for information for adding the extension to whole folders of files at one time.
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Word Web App can't open a document (corruption) but Word Desktop can

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I understand you can't open the Word documents from Word Web App, but may I know how you converted them? What is that "Word Desktop Convert functionality"? Would you please detail the steps of the conversation?
When you try the "Save As" method, any prompt or error? Can you keep saving just ignoring the error?
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Feel free to post back to provide more information.
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How to recover a corrupted MSWord Document - corrupted graphics / corrupted tables

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Document corrupted when sending file to drop off library using records repository submit file method (official file web service is used)

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Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that you want to upload files to drop off library.
Here is a blog with the code sample for your reference:
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Form 16 With digital signature giving adobe document corrupted output

Dear All,
We have configured ads and implementing form 16 with digital signature,we have done the all configuration as per SAP Guide and dezso blogs,but when generating the form 16 with digital signature its giving
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Attached Word documents corrupt

I have iMac OSX 10.4.11 and Tiger
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Mac users using Word 2004 who receive a Word 2008 for Mac, (or Word 2007 for Windows) document, will not be albe to read this without having the Open XML Converter installed, which can be downloaded from Microsoft.
Go to this page:
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The document could not be saved. There was a problem reading this document (114).

After adding some sticky notes to a PDF in Adobe Reader i went to save it and it comes up with "The document could not be saved. There was a problem reading this document (114)." and will not let me save it. Please can you advise if there is anyway of saving this document with the sicky notes in?

The problem is most likely document corruption. Try to work on a new copy from the original source.

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I am now pretty sure that this is a software bug in Leopard. I have been back to Tiger for 10 days straight now and the problem hasn't reoccurred.
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It seems that you didn't understand.
I receive in my mailbox documents sent by users asking me to try to recover the embedded content.
In my own use I never got a corrupted document but, contrarily to what you often wrote, when I receive a corrupted file, I don't state: the user made something wrong.
I assume that something failed.
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With iWork, I never got such files.
The corrupted files, at least those which I received, are always readable with standard tools, at least with Hexadecimal editors.
When the Index.xml file is available, I may decipher it and rebuild the entire document but Pages is unable to do the same, simply because, somewhere among the thousands of instructions, there is one which it is unable to decipher.
My guess is that there is a bug pushing the code to write a wrong instruction.
I would not be surprised if it is linked to the most common oddity: an instruction which doesn't manipulate correctly a carry when the treated data cross a page boundary.
I guess that because sometimes I was said that the document was killed after the addition (or the removal) of a single character.
The number of corrupted files received exploded after the introduction of iWork '09. And most often these corrupted documents are flatfiles. Maybe there is a bug in the code compacting the package built at first.
This is why I don't use flatfiles.
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