InDesign SAVED FILES OPENING AS UNTITLED HELP!

[C***@adobeforums.com]

I have a XP, version 2002 Service Pack 2. Its a Dell Optiplex GX745. I am the new designer at my office and am working on updating old catalogs. When I open a saved file, once open it says "untitled_#". Any ideas or suggestions I can use? Its a big old pain and Have mistakenly saved over two sections. Please let me know! Please email me with your responses at ***@sontecinstruments.com, or ***@yahoo.com.... THANK YOU!!!!!!

[K***@adobeforums.com]

You will see this if you open an old file in a new version. InDesign converts the old file to the format for the new
version and so it becomes a new, untitled file.

No e-mail, by the way. Everything goes through the forum so all forum users can benefit.

k

[C***@adobeforums.com]

Thank you, The problem is though, I have opened these files repeatedly. And they still come up untitled.. is there something i'm doing wrong?

[K***@adobeforums.com]

Are you saving them as the old name, giving them a new name, or simply saving them, in which case the will be saved as
untitled_X.

k

[C***@adobeforums.com]

I have tried doing all 3. With the same result and It doesn't even save the original "untitled _#" it will come up as how ever many windows i have open

Julie

[K***@adobeforums.com]

Let's assume you are opening older version files in a newer version of InDesign - I'll assume it because you haven't
confirmed that is what you are doing.

This is what should happen:

If there is a CS2 file called file.indd and you open it in CS3 it will open as untitled_1.indd, with the 1 actually
being the number of untitled InDesign files you have open.

You can then Save As file.indd, in which case it will overwrite the CS2 file and will show in your file list as
file.indd, and will open in CS3 as file.indd because it's a CS3 file.

You can Save As newfile.indd in which case your original file.indd CS2 file will remain and you will now have
newfile.indd alongside it.

You can simply hit save and the file will save as untitled_1.indd and will appear in your file list as untitled_1.indd,
alongside file.indd which will remain a CS2 file.

k

[C***@adobeforums.com]

Its actually just CS. It was created with this software, just on a different computer. I might be able to get my hands of the old computer but I'm not sure how much good that would do considering its all saved with in a server that all have access to. I really appreciate your helping me out Ken!

Julie

[Stan Wetherald]

Julie, what may be happening is that InDesign or your computer is seeing the server folder as read only and therefore opening a copy of the original file, which will show as an untitled document in ID. You must then save it and either give it a new name or leave it as Untitled_#.indd (where # is the number of untitled documents that ID has opened in your current session).

Stan Wetherald
Quality Quickprint
DeLand, Florida USA

[P***@adobeforums.com]

what may be happening is that InDesign or your computer is seeing the
server folder as read only




Which would be happening if the files were transferred from a CD, for example. You can change the file attribute in Explorer if that's the case.

Another possibility is that these are templates. Template files by default open as untitled to avoid overwriting the template.

Check the options in the file open dialog and make sure you are set to open as original.

Peter