• Adobe InDesign

  Indesign cannot save my file

  Posted by Nicki Marotta on March 26, 2014 at 1:06 am

  HELP!!!

  I have spent weeks and weeks doing a 70 page document and it has just suddenly decided not to save the file any more. the message i get is:

  Cannot save “file name”.

  Please, is there anything i can do?

  Juan jesús Millo dominguez replied 12 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Matt Townley

  April 11, 2014 at 4:50 am

  I’m assuming/hoping you have found the solution for this but if you haven’t I hope it worked out ok for you. This does occasionally happen and the first time it happened to me I freaked out! However, there is a pretty decent work around so stay calm and hang in there – you’ll get through it.

  Here’s what to do:

  1. Go to FILE > EXPORT
  2. Choose FORMAT > IDML

  That will export a working and current version of your project.

  BEFORE YOU QUIT – open the file that you just exported and test to make sure everything is ok.

  If all is well, now save that as a proper InDesign file and then you should be good to go. You can quit and close the other file and should now have a working version that can be saved.
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  Juan jesús Millo dominguez

  May 8, 2014 at 11:00 pm

  I’ve the same problem!

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