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2. Re: Help: Either the file does not exist, you do not have permission, or the file may be in use
NjuJorka Apr 10, 2012 12:02 PM (in response to Daniel Flavin)Thanks Daniel, I did just that yesterday and it didn't help. Still couldn't open the file. I remember reading yesterday somewhere that you have to do the recovery as soon as you reopen the program and the file. Ignoring that step or accessing your file from another computer makes the recovery impossible. Has anyone experienced this?
I'm thinking this is what happened in my case, thus no amount of recovery effort will bring back the lost recovered data.
It's not easy. I gave up hope last night and decided to just recreate the magazine, the deadline of which is today. The InDesign Lock file has advanatges, but it also has its drawbacks. Perhaps it would serve designers well if Indesign will have an option to turn that feature off.
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3. Re: Help: Either the file does not exist, you do not have permission, or the file may be in use
Peter Spier Apr 10, 2012 1:15 PM (in response to NjuJorka)Sometimes choosing Open as a Copy will solve the problem, at which point you should immediately Save As with another name.
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NjuJorka Apr 10, 2012 5:51 PM (in response to Peter Spier)Thank you, Peter. I hope this works.I'll try that and let you know.
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5. Re: Help: Either the file does not exist, you do not have permission, or the file may be in use
sigi.mara Sep 3, 2014 6:19 AM (in response to NjuJorka)Hi, I had the same problem. My solution is renema file and open as a copy. Than you can save it.
Hope it helps you!
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l.fekete Jan 7, 2015 12:11 AM (in response to NjuJorka)Hi guys!
I have some problem...
- earlyer a worked with mac.
- i have copied all files (eg. psd, jpg, tiff) whats i use for the print from mac to a win NTFS formatted harddisk.
- if i open an old indesign doc for edit or create a NEW indesign document in some case a can not place pictures because i get this error message like in topic adress (Either the file does not exist, you do not have permission, or the file may be in use)
Perhaps in win-mac file rights the error?
Thanks for the help!
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7. Re: Help: Either the file does not exist, you do not have permission, or the file may be in use
l.fekete Jan 15, 2015 3:32 AM (in response to l.fekete)My solution for Win8-users:
In original harddisk was a EFI partition what can't seeing in win-explorer. And can't erase normally. Firts backup the files to an another disk. Then yuo need delete this EFI partition on harddisk (find the help: Delete an EFI partition in Windows 7 | HowTo)
Then must format the whool harddisk. Copy back the original files and it works ok!
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8. Re: Help: Either the file does not exist, you do not have permission, or the file may be in use
boskoff Sep 12, 2015 12:40 AM (in response to NjuJorka)3 people found this helpfulMy solution was to remove all special characters from the name of the file (it was a Polish Word file I could not import to InDesign CC, and there were Polish characters in the file name).
Hope it works for some of you at least!
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Marypop Sep 24, 2015 12:58 AM (in response to boskoff)Thank you boskoff That helped me
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ziele1985 Sep 30, 2015 5:50 AM (in response to boskoff)I have similar problem. One person is downloading images (psg, tiff, jpg) to shared folder and other people working on them in ID. When this files have polish characters the error appears when we want insert them to ID. When changed to normal character everything is ok. But when person who is working in ID will download himself this file to same shared location everything is ok (even with polish characters). Do you have any ideas what could be changed in system?
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Willi Adelberger Sep 30, 2015 5:56 AM (in response to ziele1985)Avoid extended characters as they are causing always problems in file names. Same is with German Umlaute (ÄÖÜäöü) and sz (ß) and other symbols.
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12. Re: Help: Either the file does not exist, you do not have permission, or the file may be in use
ziele1985 Oct 8, 2015 4:56 AM (in response to Willi Adelberger)1 person found this helpfulBut everything is good when someone who is working in ID is downloading this files (with polish characters). I think there is something with user privileges on storage.
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13. Re: Help: Either the file does not exist, you do not have permission, or the file may be in use
Alves.claudia Nov 5, 2015 5:47 AM (in response to NjuJorka)I had the same problem, rename the file and copy to a different location. Should work!
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14. Re: Help: Either the file does not exist, you do not have permission, or the file may be in use
Sir-GEE-O Jan 4, 2016 7:28 AM (in response to NjuJorka)When opening InDesign, hold Shift+CTRL+ Alt and clear your preferences with the dialogue window that comes up. Then, when the file opens, relink the media. That fixed it for me.
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captainjman2 Mar 29, 2016 12:20 PM (in response to NjuJorka)File could not be linked within InDesign, the solution was to open InDesign and cancel the recovery of files and then close InDesign. Repeat this proccess until InDesign doesn't want to recover any more files. Open the file, link the files and the link should work correctly.
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pony67890 Jul 7, 2016 1:56 PM (in response to NjuJorka)1 person found this helpfulIn my case, and I'm on a Mac running El Cap 10.11.3, it had to do with the file path. I had used a forward slash in the folder name and once I changed that to a dash, the problem resolved. This seems odd, as I'm sure I've done this before, so it may have something to do with the way El Cap reads directories. Hope this helps.
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Durojaiyes Nov 11, 2016 7:20 PM (in response to NjuJorka)If you are using a Mac, I found a simple solution. Check to see if your images are in "Photos" (it's a preset folder). First create a new library folder by clicking the drop down arrow, select all of your images, right click and select move to "new folder". Your images should automatically relink. Hope it works for you.
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davids65 Jan 24, 2017 11:18 AM (in response to pony67890)I also found this to be true. In my case, a folder used for filing had a forward slash in the name. As soon as I removed it, and resaved the file, it works now.
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jeromevadon Aug 30, 2017 3:44 PM (in response to NjuJorka)1 person found this helpfulGood evening folks.
Oh I know that problem very well
Lucky you, I found the solution (99% of the cases)
Simply rename your document, including the ".doc/docx" extension and... Magic (encoding pb btw differents OS / Languages)
You are welcome
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susanneh50650640 Sep 18, 2017 2:30 AM (in response to boskoff)Thank you boskoff!!
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annettemarieprice Sep 22, 2017 8:47 AM (in response to pony67890)Thanks, pony67890, that helped me.
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Chad Smalley Oct 30, 2017 10:27 PM (in response to pony67890)
Thanks pony67890! I'm also on a Mac and you nailed it. This had been driving me crazy for weeks. Whole time it was just a slash in the parent folder for all my design files. -
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kjkjlk Apr 18, 2018 8:38 AM (in response to jeromevadon)how do you rename it when you can't open it
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Steve Werner Apr 18, 2018 10:31 AM (in response to kjkjlk)You would rename it in your operating system.
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emmat54177953 Apr 23, 2018 1:30 PM (in response to boskoff)Thank you so much for this! I had a very important file that corrupted and this was the key to saving it! I just took away all of the "_" and "-" and it opened right away!