InDesign guards
your data against unexpected power or system failures using an automatic
recovery feature. Automatically recovered data exists in a temporary
file that is separate from the original document file on disk. Under normal
circumstances you don’t need to think about automatically recovered data,
because any document updates stored in the automatic recovery file
are automatically added to the original document file when you choose
the Save or Save As command or exit from InDesign normally.
Automatically recovered data is important only if you’re unable
to save successfully before an unexpected power or system failure.
Even
though these features exist, you should save your files often and
create backup files in case of unexpected power or system failures.
If automatically recovered data exists, InDesign automatically
displays the recovered document. The word [Recovered] appears after
the filename in the title bar of the document window to indicate
that the document contains unsaved changes that were automatically
recovered.
Note: If InDesign fails
after attempting to open a document using automatically recovered
changes, the automatically recovered data may be corrupted.
Do one of the following:
To save the recovered data, choose File >
Save As, specify a location and a new filename, and click Save.
The Save As command keeps the recovered version that includes the
automatically recovered data; the word [Recovered] disappears from
the title bar.
To discard automatically recovered changes and use
the most recent version of the document that was explicitly saved
to disk before the failure occurred, close the file without saving
it and open the file on disk, or choose File > Revert.
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Dave Saunders
said on
Oct 11, 2007
at
4:40 AM :
Sometimes, when the recovery data is corrupted, you can get into an endless cycle where you simply cannot launch InDesign. Usually, after three tries, InDesign will throw up a dialog inviting you to discard the recovery data -- in which case, click the 'No' button to revert to the previously saved version of your document.
But, if the attempt to relaunch results in a crash and every attempt has the same fate, then check your Preferences/Adobe InDesign/Version 5.0 folder. If there is a Recovery folder in there, try trashing it. That might resolve the crashing problem. Warning: doing this will lose any work you did after you last saved your document.
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