AboutRoy Wilhelm Expertise I can help you with questions about typography, style sheets, document setup, image placement, importing text, exporting, and much more.
Experience I use InDesign daily to design magazine pages. I have experience in newspaper and magazine design.
Organizations AIGA
Education/Credentials I have a Bachelor's degree in Communication Design
Question I have to submit a file tomorrow and I am in dire straits! I had a 5gig indesign file, indesign cs2 for mac. I saved it, then started packaging so I could back it up. The computer froze, and I restarted. Now when I try to open the file, I get an "error code 5" telling me that the data in the file has been corrupted and is non-recoverable! When I check the size of the file, it is now 138 MB instead of 5gigs! Please please please do you know how I can recover my data?
Answer Hi Kate,
First off, I hope you can get your file back! Second, 5 gigs is an ENORMOUS InDesign file. My guess is that you were pasting images and/or Illustrator elements directly into the file instead of linking to them externally.
Only solution for an error 5 that I know is to open an earlier version of the file and swap out the pasted images with linked images.
I've heard of people trying to open the file in Quark 6, but I'm not sure if it's even possible.
