: Force indesign to backup / autosave / keep backup copy We recently had an incident were we lost some work in a indesign file, although indesign by default autosaves every minute the issue we
We recently had an incident were we lost some work in a indesign file, although indesign by default autosaves every minute the issue we had is that when the program was closed it prompted us to either : cancel, save or dont save.
By mistake we clicked dont save, what seems to happen if you do this is that indesign will delete its autosaved / recovert files so its asif you never worked on the file at all.
I dont think there is but is there a way to restore my lost files after i hit dont save ?
Is there a way to get indesign to either Autosave back to its original file or Create a separate backup file (either over written or versioned) ?
Or is there another way (obviously clicking save would be helpful, but mistakes happen which is were you need a proper backup / autosave rather than a 'recovery' autosave)
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I know I'm necroposting, but you might be interested in Pixelapse (in case you haven't found it already). It's cross-platform and it supports many file formats.
Some benefits:
It uses visual version control and collaboration workflow for open source and private design projects. Every design iteration is automatically backed up as you work. Whether it's a small tweak or a large revamp, you can isolate and compare design changes quickly. Every single version of your design is saved. It is compatible with most popular design software including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Fireworks, Graffle and Sketch. It uses industry standard AES-256 file encryption at rest and SSL in transit, so your data is safe.
There's no way to make InDesign do it. But there's plenty of ways to make the Finder/Explorer do it. Hazel on the Mac and Belvedere on Windows, for instance, can fix this problem for you, by automatically copying the file at certain intervals to a new folder and giving it a timestamp.
Hazel and Belvedere (and these are just two apps in a larger category of file folder automators) can take instructions from the user as to what to do with files in a specified folder. You can, for example, have the app watch a folder called "current InDesign job" and have it copy out the INDD file and paste it elsewhere, perhaps called "current InDesign job backup" and add a timestamp. You can configure how often it does this, too, so hourly or daily backups of the file could be made. You could then append that instruction to include an auto-delete of older backups. It's neat.
What you could do is use a cloud service such as Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Box, etc.
These create online backups automatically, and usually have versioning, which means you can restore previous versions. So each time you save, it will create on an online backup. If something then happens to your file, you can just restore the previous version.
Even Windows offers a system of versioning that's well worth looking into.
You are looking for a version backup. I'm looking for the same thing. Similar to what web designers use. I came across this script:
www.indesign-faq.de/en/save-with-backup
It does what I'm looking for but - you need to force the script to run. What I want is something that will automatically produce a back up file when I save the document.
... its a start
in short, NO.
But you can experiment with save a version, you might even assign a shortcut so you can access it very fast through the keyboard.
Or try to backup the temp files folder. Located on Mac OS X: Users/[User Name]/ Library/Cache/Adobe InDesign/Version[#.0]/ InDesign Recovery
But the best way to protect your work is to save often and make backups!
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