5 Secret Tips To Repair Corrupt InDesign (.indd) File on Mac

INDD stands for InDesign Document. It is a file extension for a page layout file that is used by Adobe InDesign and it can also be opened in Adobe InCopy. Adobe InDesign is page design and layout software that allow you to work on desktop and mobile devices and help you in creating digital and printed books, brochures to digital magazines, eBooks and other interactive online documents. INDD files contains several elements such as content, formatting, styles, media objects, Notes, Footnotes, layers, text, images, tables, shapes, TOC, Bookmarks, characters, animation hyperlinks, cross-references and much more.

However, like any other computer files, INDD files are too prone to corruption and there could be several known and unknown reasons that can easily corrupt/damage your important Adobe InDesign (.indd) files.

Causes Responsible For the Corruption of INDD Files

Some of the common reasons for the corruption INDD files are mentioned below:

Due to abrupt or improper exit of Adobe InDesign while you were creating or editing INDD files
System file corruption could also one of the reasons
Availability of bad sectors in hard drive where you have saved INDD files
Virus or malware attacks can easily corrupt any computer files, including your InDesign files

These are some common reasons that can corrupt/damage INDD files. You should know that when a single element gets affected with corruption, you will notice that your InDesign document is behaving strange. And when this happen, then further you will notice that there is a problem in opening the INDD document, the file may get crash, hang or freeze and may lead to loss of InDesign files.

5 Tips To Repair and Recover InDesign (.indd) Files

So, here we bring 5 useful tips to repair INDD files on Mac Operating system.

Tip #1: Re-Name The File & Save Corrupt InDesign Document

You can rename the file name of the INDD documents. Below follow how to rename the file:

Launch INDD application
Go to File < Open < Select the InDesign file < Copy < Rename the InDesign file name
Once you rename the file, check whether the problem is solved or not

Tip #2: Check The Compatibility

You must check the Mac operating system and the version of InDesign application, whether they are compatible or not. You can check the compatibility features from software Help>Updates.

Tip #3: Troubleshoot InDesign on Mac

InDesign software offers feature known as Document Recovery - it can be used retrieve deleted/lost INDD documents. It can also be used to restore files that get damaged or corrupted due interruption like sudden power failure or due to other system issues. However, the corruption that occurs due to virus, hard disk crash, software conflictions, hard drive bad sectors are not repaired by the Document Recovery feature.

Tip #4: Solve Mac Disk Permissions

You can repair Mac Hard Drive and Disk Permission via Disk Utility. The permission “differs” for INDD files and it could be one of the causes for the damage of InDesign documents. So, repairing the disk errors and problems will automatically help you in recovering you InDesign documents. Once you successfully completed disk check, open your InDesign application and check your INDD files.

Tip #5: Repair Damaged InDesign (.indd) Files Using INDD File Repair

After following the above mentioned tips, if you are still encountering problems like damage and corruption in your InDesign documents then you can use one of the popular and perfect third party applications known as InDesign File Repair Tool for Mac that is specifically designed to repair corrupt/damaged InDesign (INDD) files. The tool is very easy to use and it allows you to preview the recoverable files within the application, but in order to recover them you have to purchase the full version of the software. The software supports INDD document repair of CS5.5, CS6 and Creative Cloud (CC).