How To Fix Adobe InDesign Error Code 4

Does your InDesign application frequently showing error code 4 each time you are working on it? Do you know why this error coming on your InDesign application and obstacle you from working smoothly with this? To know answer of such questions, you must read the post carefully. As this tutorial covers what this InDesign error code 4 is and how to fix this off.

About InDesign error code 4

Generally this error code 4 comes when an error or other unexpected issue occurs while you work in that document. Though InDesign is an automatic document recovery feature can’t avoid other system level problems such as software conflicts, low disk space or viruses cause.

Still you need to worry for this because this tutorial is to guide you on isolating and resolving damaged InDesign documents with this InDesign error code 4 or any other.

Causes of Indesign File Corruption Error Code 4

• Insufficient hard drive space also generates InDesign file corruption error code 4.
• Incompatible or outdated system BIOS.
• Reason can be the mismatched video adapter drivers.
• Sometimes damaged device driver or a system service also causes the issue.
• Windows registry is somehow get damaged from recent software changes.

Troubleshoot for document damage

Manual procedure to fix damaged caused due to occurrence of error code 4 in your InDesign.

Solution 1: Install the latest InDesign update.

• In InDesign, choose Help > Updates.

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• (Creative Cloud) Use the Creative Cloud desktop application to update InDesign.

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• Download updates from the Adobe website.

Solution 2:  Re-create your preference files.

InDesign keeps the entire information about its plug-in and apps in the preference files i.e InDesign Saved Data and InDesign Default Files. Damaged preference files of InDesign may result to occurrence of such error. To fix the issue related to InDesign preference file by recreating them.

To re-create the InDesign preference files:

1. Close InDesign.

2. Re-launch InDesign and hold down the appropriate keys for your OS:

• Mac OS X: Control+Option+Command+Shift

• Windows: Control+Alt+Shift

When the application asks you to delete InDesign preference files then click yes.  InDesign launches with default and regenerated preference files.

Open the document gain and check whether the problem is sorted out or not.

Also Read: Fix for Font Problems in Adobe InDesign

Solution 3: Copy page elements into a new document.

Try copying page element into a new one leaving the structural damage apart.

1. Open the original InDesign document.

2. Choose File > New and click OK in the New Document dialog box.

3. Choose Window > Tile to display both documents.

4. Click the original document to activate it.

5. To activate the Pages panel choose Window > Pages.

6. Drag a page or spread into the new document window. InDesign copies the page or spread into the new document, adding pages as necessary.

7. Save the new document with a new name and try to re-create the problem.

8. If the problem recurs after you copy page elements into a new one, delete elements one by one to see if one of the elements is the issue.

If the problem is still there than the only solution that is left is, make use of InDesign file repair tool.

Solution 4: Try InDesign File Repair Tool

InDesign Repair Tool is the most suited solution to fix adobe InDesign file issues such as INDD, INDT and INDB on Windows PC.  Not only this the software is also very helpful in restoring up many other files such as Microsoft Office files documents (DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, PDF, XLSX, HTML, TXT etc), video files, audio files, pictures, and other file type based on unique file signature scan on windows PC.

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