MISSING .indd file after Indesign crash

Using Indesign CC and Yosemite 10.10.2
I saved an .indd file to my hard drive successfully, tried to export as a PDF and it crashed.
And took the .indd file with it. It's not corrupted, it's simply GONE. And the PDF is a whopping 0k.
Indesign tried its best to recover after the crash, but needs the actual .indd file to do so, of course. First time Indesign CC crashed on me, actually.
I spotlight-searched my HD, trash, servers, everywhere. It's completely gone. or renamed? or hidden? I turned on hidden files via Terminal, not there. Restarted too.
Anybody had this happen?
Nope, I didn't have it backed up. Murphy's Law, the one time you put off backing up....

That's the gist of the first thread Bob suggested you see.
Removing programs tends to remove the file associations, too. You can either restore the association using Explorer, which will use the same icon for all version documents, or you can re-install which will restore the associations and enable the icon handler .dll to show you the correct icon for each version.
Not that it matters at this point, because the damage is done, but uninstalling older versions after installing new ones is generally poor practice and likely to remove something useful. If you are going to uninstall the old version, do it first. You can also create problems for yourself if you try to install an old version after the new one.
There's really not much reason to uninstall old versions of most Adobe products at all. The only one I know that won't co-exist nicely is Acrobat, and the installer will remove the old version for you these days. I still have ID installed going back to version 2, and you'd be surprised how often I want to open a legacy file in the original application.
Peter

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Is it possible to Recover a document after InDesign crash?
I was creating a long document in InDesign and after placing some bad Word
document, Indesign crashed..
The bad thing is that I didn't save file before a crash, and after reopening
file after crash I realized that 60 pages are missing..
Can I recover this information somehow?
Does InDesign makes AutoSave files (and how can I open them?)
Thank you in advance,
R.

Does InDesign makes AutoSave files (and how can I open them?)
Isn't it what it does actually ? When it offers recovery, I guess it opens what it can. The other datas may be missing or truncated.
So basically, I would say that your 60pages datas are lost for ever.
You could try to open the document directly and see if it makes any differencies.
Another way, but never understood how to process on my own, should be to fix the information opening the indd file in a txt editor (like notepad). But I am afraid it's more a fantasy than a real opportunity. Anyway, trying so will be more time consuming than doing the things again.
The more scriptable thing I see right now would be a permanent script that would save a copy every minute for example. But I don't know if it's a real good way of thinking.
Another great script is activated by a shortkey " Ctrl + S" ;-)
This is a script you really learn with experience and that become a reflex. I know it could sound like a mockery, buit it's not.
It's just that sometimes this is the best way to avoid problems.
Anyway, I hope someone gives you a better answer.
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I was working on a large Keynote file (about 130 Mb), when Keynote (4.0.1) quite unexpectedly. It happened a few times before, and I thought it was because of the instability of the new Leopard system. This time, however, I could not open the file after the crash. An error message was displayed: "Can't open file" followed by the path and the file name.
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Keynote and Leopard, especially in their newest iterations, are remarkably stable. That said, no file, program, or OS is totally immune from corruption. Whenever a program, or worse, your Mac, even starts to behave strangely, your first step ought to be to attend to it with a good fixit utility. Repairing permissions is usually fruitless, since it's highly unlikely there's a permissions problem. You already own *Disk Utility*, so you should try to repair the disk with that. Unfortunately, DU's disk repair is pretty wimpy, often unable to repair a problem, or erroneously reporting no problem when one obviously exists.
So, if you own a Mac, you owe it to yourself to buy at least one (but better, two) industrial-strength utility. There are really only three to choose from:
1. DiskWarrior is an absolute must. It's unbeatable in rebuilding the directory, and the directory is usually what's corrupted. It can now fix files, too, which is also helpful.
2. *TechTool Pro* is an excellent suite of fixits - directory, files, defrag, and some hardware tests. It also has a wonder feature, the eDrive. This is a small (10GB) bootable partition on your boot drive which has, among other things, TTP on it. If your main boot partition has a problem, you can boot from here and usually fix things. AFAIC, it's an absolute must on a laptop which you take on trips, far from your collection of fixit disks. You can also put DW on this partition, so you have everything you need right at your fingertips.
3. *Drive Genius* is a relative new-comer, also a good suite of fixits, and, I believe, does backups, too.
I have 1 and 2, and that has saved me from catastrophe more than once. 1 and 3 would probably be good, too. (You ought to have more than one of these serious apps because one can sometimes fix something another can't - different proprietary algorithms.)
One last thing: if you have anything on your computer it'd break your heart to lose (and who doesn't), remember +The First Rule of Computing+: There are two kinds of computer users: those who have already lost all their data at least once, and those who have not yet lost all their data at least once. So: *backup, backup, backup*. I vote for bootable clones, done often (at least daily if you work daily), TimeMachine is pretty good, and there are other options. Pick one, and do it religiously.

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I have a PC running Windows 7 and InDesign CS2. The laptop's installation of Windows was corrupted and I had to re-install the OS. I backed up all files, reinstalled the OS, and then reinstalled applications. One of those applications was InDesign CS2. However, after the installation of CS2 on the fresh copy of Windows, I noticed that I have trouble opening most, but not all, of the InDesign files on my hard drive.
When I try to open a .indd file I see an error message pop up that says "Missing Plug-ins. LILO.APLN, DYNAMICDOCUMENTS.RPLN, CONDITIONALTEXT.RPLN" and three more. Under that list of missing plugins is the warning "This document uses one or more plug-ins which are not currently available on your system. Do you want to open anyway?" If I click "okay" I then am met with another dialog box that says "Cannot open file. TEXT.RPLN, LAYER.RPLN" and on and on for about 60 more items.
I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE THINKING! I've searched around concerning this issue and it appears the consensus is that the file was opened by a newer version of InDesign. That possibility is, in fact, an impossibility. Never have I used a newer version of InDesign. The files that I am working on were backed up, stored on local storage and not touched once before reinstalling the OS and reinstalling InDesign CS2.
I also noticed that not all InDesign file formats were associated with InDesign in "Windows Programs and Defaults." I changed those to look to InDesign. I've also uninstalled InDesign CS2 and re-installed.
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[Jongware] wrote:
Nonapeptide wrote:
... an error message pop up that says "Missing Plug-ins. LILO.APLN, DYNAMICDOCUMENTS.RPLN, CONDITIONALTEXT.RPLN" and three more. ...
I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE THINKING! I've searched around concerning this issue and it appears the consensus is that the file was opened by a newer version of InDesign. That possibility is, in fact, an impossibility.
Conditional Text was a new feature in CS4. I'm thinking, can you explain how your old CS2 documents became aware of it?
Not exactly sure myself. Abiogenesis?
[Edit]
Almost forgot. I wrote a script to unequivocally determine the InDesign version a document was last saved as:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4071273
I'll give that a try today. Even an affirmative judgement that the files are newer than CS2 would not impress me however. The fact remains, the files were copied off one hard drive over to another, the plug was pulled on the hard drive, the PC was re-imaged, CS2 was reinstalled, the files were copied back over... and whammo.

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I cant get into the file to fix the problem as it crashes inDesign during opening. Other indd files open fine and inDesign works as it should. i have the latest version etc
HELP

That, work fromn a backup copy of a previous version if you have one, or you can pay Markzware to try a recovery (Bad InDesign or Quark File Recovery Submission Form ), but it is not cost effective unless you have more than a few hundred dollars of time to recreate the file.
I notice the file was over 20 mb, which is pretty big for a .indd. Does it have a lot of pasted content? If so, placing art instead of pasting would be a good idea. If not, it probably indicates that the file had a lot of useless change information built up over time. You can get rid of that by doing a periodic Save As, and I advise using a new name each time (I add a version suffix) so you have a backup chain in case of disaster.

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Yesterday, I updated CS2 with CS4. Then, CS2 was uninstalled.
Today I have been trying to use CS4 InDesign. When I tried to open indd files (created with CS2), I am getting only empty pages.
I also found that INDD was not listed under Folder Options>File Types, but I see InCP, INDP (also IDAP, IDML, IDP) but not INDD. I could not figure out what is going on with CS4. Do you have any explanation for it? James

That's the gist of the first thread Bob suggested you see.
Removing programs tends to remove the file associations, too. You can either restore the association using Explorer, which will use the same icon for all version documents, or you can re-install which will restore the associations and enable the icon handler .dll to show you the correct icon for each version.
Not that it matters at this point, because the damage is done, but uninstalling older versions after installing new ones is generally poor practice and likely to remove something useful. If you are going to uninstall the old version, do it first. You can also create problems for yourself if you try to install an old version after the new one.
There's really not much reason to uninstall old versions of most Adobe products at all. The only one I know that won't co-exist nicely is Acrobat, and the installer will remove the old version for you these days. I still have ID installed going back to version 2, and you'd be surprised how often I want to open a legacy file in the original application.
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Hello all,
It is bad enough that Adobe doesn't add a plugin to preview any Adobe source file within Windows Explorer (well, except for PDF but I think Microsoft did that).
But I find it ridiculous that I cannot preview .indd source files inside InDesign's Open File dialog box. It just states, "No preview available". I am sure this failure is tied into what Windows can preview... still, not a good excuse!
This is also the same problem in both Illustrator and Photoshop.... neither Adobe program can preview their own file format!
WHY? OR How can I correct this?
[UPDATE: SageThumbs | SourceForge.net seems to partially work on many Photoshop files (works reasonably well as long as I limit the file size to 70mb), it doesn't seem to work on Illustrator files (despite the claim), and it doesn't work on InDesign.]
Still, the question remains, why isn't Adobe taking responsibility for this?

I think you all misunderstood.
I am referring to opening files *within* the Adobe software. Example: Inside InDesign, I click File > Open... I see a list of my .indd files and to the right is a window with the words, "Select a file to preview." If I select an .indd file, I think it is reasonable to assume that I will see a preview of the .indd file... but NO, I just see the message, "No preview available."
In my opinion, this is a failing of Adobe!
> Use bridge
Why would I want to open a separate program just to see thumbnails? Sure Bridge has its uses when I want to look at a lot of different images but I am only talking about quickly seeing a thumbnail before I open a single file within either InDesign, Photoshop, or Illustrator.
Q. If Bridge can render thumbnails, why on Earth would Adobe not place the preview code into the open file dialog of each program?

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thanks!

Peter,
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Should I put the Document Fonts folder in the file labeled fonts within InDesign under program files?
The file came to me as a zip file and when opening it, it asked if I would like to encrypt the files, when i agreed it said there were errors in encrypting the Document Fonts. I really dont know what else to do?

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I am having a similar issue as these guys:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6627170
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6621798?start=30&tstart=0
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sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=251000193024; sectorsize=512; blocks=490234752
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 490234751
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          0          1         MBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640   82880688      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   83290328    1269544      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   84559872 405673984      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
490233856        863
490234719         32         Sec GPT table
490234751          1         Sec GPT header
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Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 30515/255/63 [490234752 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE    0   0   2 -   25 127 14 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF   25 127 15 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 -   82880688] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 83290328 -    1269544] Darwin Boot
*4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 84559872 - 405673984] HPFS/QNX/AUX
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00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
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Ok, that took a while but resulted in nothing. I'll run a deep search over night. Here is the output:
TestDisk 7.0-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, October 2014
Christophe GRENIER <[email protected]>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
Disk /dev/disk0 - 251 GB / 233 GiB - 490234752 sectors (RO)
The harddisk (251 GB / 233 GiB) seems too small! (< 813 GB / 757 GiB)
Check the harddisk size: HD jumpers settings, BIOS detection...
The following partitions can't be recovered:
     Partition               Start        End    Size in sectors
> MS Data                102559704 508233687 405673984
   Mac HFS                354985583 1588930160 1233944578
   MS Data                490233855 895907838 405673984
...and when I clicked continue:
TestDisk 7.0-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, October 2014
Christophe GRENIER <[email protected]>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
Disk /dev/disk0 - 251 GB / 233 GiB - 490234752 sectors (RO)
     Partition               Start        End    Size in sectors
P EFI System                    40     409639     409600 [EFI]
P Mac HFS                   409640   83290327   82880688
P Mac HFS                 83290328   84559871    1269544
>D MS Data                 84559872 490233855 405673984
D MS Data                 84682627   84688800       6174
D MS Data                 84688800   84694973       6174 [Boot]
D MS Data                 85599456   85602335       2880 [EFISECTOR]
D MS Data                 88317315   88323488       6174
D MS Data                 88323488   88329661       6174 [Boot]
D MS Data                 88323507   88329680       6174
D MS Data                 88329680   88335853       6174 [Boot]
D MS Data                 88329699   88335872       6174
Structure: Ok. Use Up/Down Arrow keys to select partition.
Use Left/Right Arrow keys to CHANGE partition characteristics:
                P=Primary D=Deleted
Keys A: add partition, L: load backup, T: change type, P: list files,
     Enter: to continue
NTFS found using backup sector, blocksize=4096, 207 GB / 193 GiB
When I listed the files for the first one, I got junk:
TestDisk 7.0-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, October 2014
Christophe GRENIER <[email protected]>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
     MS Data                 84559872 490233855 405673984
Directory /
dr-xr-xr-x     0     0         0 26-Oct-2014 00:48 .
>dr-xr-xr-x     0     0         0 26-Oct-2014 00:48 ..
dr-xr-xr-x     0     0         0 24-Jan-2012 15:26 $Recycle.Bin
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