Methods To Fix InDesign “Cannot Copy Necessary Linked Files” Issue…!

Being InDesign users you might have encountered with the error “Cannot copy necessary linked files”. You might have also observed that InDesign file would start behaving in a wired way. And it may take lot of time in figuring out this issue.

 Reason:

Well this “Cannot copy necessary linked files” error generally occurs if you have putted any special character such as forward slash, dot, comma, asterisk, underscore or backward slash, in the folder or in a file name. Other reasons are may be the link that is used for linking is very long. Sometime the reason is also be that your InDesign file may get corrupted.

Apart from that you should also need to observe that is that problem is only with the particular file or if InDesign causes issue with other files too. Eg: if the file name contain forward slash then Adobe occasionally fails to identify those and hence unable to trace the exact file location. Thus by avoiding the use of forward slash and by mentioning the proper file location along with special characters will help you to overcome this error.

Also Read: Fix for Font Problems in Adobe InDesign

How Adobe InDesign Files Are Corrupted/deleted / lost?

Some of the most common causes of InDesign is mentioned here:

• May be the file is get infected with malware or virus.
• Remove important adobe InDesign files by unintentionally pressing of  “Shift + Delete” keys.
• May be it loss during hard disk partition or storage device that consists of essential adobe InDesign files.
• Reason can be also the apprehensive third party apps malfunction on the system and that will leads to file deletion of InDesign.
• Some other reasons are OS corruption, improper system shutdown, hard drive crash or inappropriate file system conversion.

Common Error messages of InDesign file

Commonly it is found that InDesign file gets corrupted due to several reasons and after that it display several error messages. The most common one are mentioned here:

•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

Best Solution To Fix InDesign File Corruption Issue:

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