How to open my file after ' cannot find - filename-"error message?

OK, the bottom line is, InDesign crashes and I can't recover my file. I get a "File not found" error message when I try to open the file.

I use CS6 on a MacBookAir, OS X Yosemite.

I tried to find the "InDesignFileRecovery" folder, I can not find anywhere, is not in my file library or Caches.

However, I work in dropbox, so I headed over to dropbox to recover from their "previous versions". It starts to get weird. There are a lot of versions (I back up very regularly), but when I download a previous version (I know was fine) it downloads with the extension indd.txt. So I remove the txt extension and keep the indd and everything seems fine, but then that recovered file gives the same message. I tried renaming the file opening and recovered that same "file not found" error message.

I can open InDesign and open the file from the previous day, but nothing of the box of older versions of work this day of. I'm SO sick of what's going on. It happened to me last week, so far I lost 20 hours work :-(

I tried quit InDesign and restart the Mac, does not help. The only thing I can think of is to "save under" every two hours, at least, if all goes well then I lose only 2 hours of work.

I found the answer on another thread. The solution is to open in InDesign and when you select the file to open, choose "open copy". It worked! Cannot believe it. Still don't know why dropbox tactics did not work well...

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