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Drop Box is not saving InDesign files!
My InDesign files download as a weird text file. ALL OF THEM. Has Drop Box lost all my InDesign files?? I tried going to earlier versions but they don't exisit. Here's what I get instead of my files:
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Luckily, the solution to my problem was very easy. When Drop Box downloads the InDesign file it adds a .TXT to the file name. Don't know why. All I had to do was delete the ".txt" on the file name and it became a perfect InDesign file. Thank you to the pepole who replied!!
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- Mark
Super User II
You need to download what will look like the folder from the area you saved them in (InDesign is actually a package of files saved which Macs turn in to a file - everybody else sees it as lots of files though).
When you download this file you may need to rename the .zip to whatever extension InDesign has. Same problem - I was trying to work on a file at home that had been saved at the office. I cannot synch my whole 'work in progress' folder to my home machine as it is too small, so I selective synch.
My work around was to move the sub-folder into the main dropbox folder and then selectively synch that.
Took 30 mins but files were fine
I still have the same problem as you in that if I ty to download a single file I get a text file - just like yours - the problem with the offered solution is that all my indesign files are in the same folder which is huge and I couldnt download the whole thing as my HD at home is too small. So What I did was make a smaller folder and moved the indesign files I needed into that then moved that to the main window and synched. I will try downloading that folder as advised tonight and see if that works too. The only issue there is that I end up with a lot of duplicate files on different machines which is the reason i started using dropbox in the first place - ie to avoid duplicates.
The only way I can get it to work efficiently is to synch all my current files - catch 22
Luckily, the solution to my problem was very easy. When Drop Box downloads the InDesign file it adds a .TXT to the file name. Don't know why. All I had to do was delete the ".txt" on the file name and it became a perfect InDesign file. Thank you to the pepole who replied!!
that is nuts!!! thanks for sharing it - I just tried and it works!!
Here it is July 2018 and this is still happening. Deleting the .txt extention or downloading the whole folder fix the problem, but why is this happening? I assumed I was doing something wrong, but we can all be doing something wrong.
- Frank_S
Dropbox Staff
Hey all,
Just to follow up on this thread, our engineering team pushed a fix for this late last week - InDesign files should now be downloading normally, without appending a .txt to the end of the file name. If anyone is still experiencing this, please let me know!
Thanks!
Frank
