Manual And Automatic Solution To Repair Corrupt Adobe Indesign Files

Do you have such InDesign file that won’t open, keeps crashing and doesn’t preview properly? You may find such issue with your InDesign file time to time as they can also get corrupt like any other system file. in this tutorial you will going to learn best techniques that may help you to recover your file in just few simple steps.

Common Error Messages That Indicate Corruption Of InDesign File

Generally, InDesign file gets corrupted due to several reasons and after that it display several error messages. Some of the common error messages which come in InDesign file are mentioned below:

•  InDesign file damaged error code 4
•  InDesign file damaged error code 5
•  InDesign PDF export error
•  InDesign CS4 error code5
•  InDesign error "failed to export the pdf file"
•  InDesign export to PDF doesn't work
•  The file is incompatible with InDesign (Error code 14)
•  Cannot open InDesign file, error code 4
•  File is damaged, error code 1
• Also Read: Fix for Font Problems in Adobe InDesign

Also Read: Fix for Font Problems in Adobe InDesign

Manual Method To Open Corrupt InDesign File

Method 1 – The file is corrupted but you can open the file

Step 1 - Alright, let’s open the corrupted file. Once it get opened then go to File>Export.

Step 2 – Now from the Export panel select “InDesign Interchange” from the drop down option. You can name the file and save it to the desired location on your PC. If everything goes right then the file extension will look like this -filename.inx

Step 3 – After this just close the corrupt file and then open the new file .inx that you have just saved. When you open the file within InDesign then you will see that it has name as “Untitled Document”. In addition all of the original design and content will be present with no corruption.

Step 4 – Well, you can double check whether the corruption is fixed or not. Say for example, if your InDesign is getting crashed when you try to resize a specific image, then you can try this above mentioned steps. Optimistically, the process performed is good and the corruption has gone. Now, you can check the contents and links are linked properly. You can check the images, typefaces and colors by using this option File>Preflight.

Step 5 – After checking the files and all the things are correct then save the file by using the option File>Save and select the desired location on your PC where you want to save the file. You are done!!! Now you have the fully recovered InDesign file.

Best option to recover corrupt InDesign file data:

InDesign File Repair Tool is the best tool that can be used to fix corrupted InDesign documents. This is one of the best repair tools and also, recover all design elements intact, such as layers, Text, Images, Tables, Media Objects, Notes & Footnotes, TOC, Bookmarks, Hyperlinks, Cross-references, Standard Shapes Special Characters, Animation and many more. This is very powerful recovery tool that is suggested by many professional as it is easy to use and effectively scan and fix errors. It is the unique tool that repairs all Adobe InDesign elements that get damaged, corrupted or inaccessible for various reasons.