InDesign Files

[nicolaw21694894]

I got InDesign CC installed on my PC last week. I had been using CS3 until then. Now some of my CS3 files are InCopy files instead, which I don't have and have never used. Some of the CS3 files are fine and open no problem, however. What is causing this and what do I do about it?

[Mike Witherell]

How is it, exactly, that you say "some of my CS3 files are InCopy files"? Have you examined Windows file associations (right-click on a file and choose Open With...)

[nicolaw21694894]

They have the suffix .incd for an InCopy file. When I right click on one of them and click Open I get the error message:

Cannot open InCopy files from within InDesign. Please choose File > Place to add the InCopy file to an InDesign document.

**************************

Nicola L. Whitley, MS, CCPH

Communications Office

NH Department of Health and Human Services

603-271-9388 – office

603-419-0329 - cell

nicola.whitley@dhhs.nh.gov<mailto:nicola.whitley@dhhs.nh.gov> (Please note new email address)

[Eric Dumas]

.incd were never InDesign file, not even exported from InDesign.

Either the CS3 InCopy files were linked to your CS3 InDesign documents or a weird virus renamed your extensions... My bet would be the first option.

Can use a 'demo' version of InCopy to extract the content of your InCopy files and recreate your InDesign files?