InDesign can't open "old files" CS6.

I had to make some adjustments in a project, I opened before and was working a lot... (2 months since the last time I worked with this project) When I had to make some minor corrections etc. on this project yesterday I can't open the file. The project he auto are only on the 8900 kB. What to do? I can open my projects recently "newly" made and used... Ive tried a few other projects which was also old, every 2 to 6 months old... And it's just randomly witch I open it and the witch 'cannot open '...

This is the error for CS6.

CS6.jpg

This is the error for CS 5.5.

CS5.5.jpg

If you go out a few suggestions of scream! Will try what worked before... (If someone had this same problem atleast!)

Sincerely,

David

First of all, a tip: try breaking manually links to the file by moving this document you want to open on your desktop or another directory or such and then try to open the... (corrupted image previews and/or images may then be largely elminated as a potential cause)

As @Peter mentioned, we (Markzware - link here for how it works) can probably repair this file. Interesting notes of @jongware above. Without having seen this file, our research shows there are variety of reasons an InDesign file can head South and corrupt or crash on you. Just as a doctor cannot always say what has caused the problem, there are some basic steps that we should take. For example, OS updated, using the latest available update InDesign, enough disk space and disk for Adobe scartch space heavy design operations. Here is a list of some of the most common problems with bad INDD documents:

* Corrupt police (or corrupt fonts (see below) caches

* Corrupt or images

* Power failure

* Place images by drag - move a Web page

* Working on a file, InDesign via a network or on a remote server

Here is a video on how to approach caches of fonts with InDesign, which is good once and awhile, anyway:

http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=Nf5ZuiaYgus

To check the files of individual fonts (fonts are like mini apps really), we recommend FontExplorer XPro or Extensis Suitcase Fusion 4, the latest may be the more popular of the two.

You can contact me on [email protected] if you need assistance with us trying to recover your file InDesign CS hurt more. We also have a PDF file to the conversion tool InDesign called PDF2DTP if you have a PDF file.

Friendships,

David Dilling of Markzware

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