"You may not have permission or the document may be open already."

[Bibito]

I'm working in a magazine with diferent articles and creating diferent sections by "saving as..." the privious file. when I try to open two of that "cloned" documents I get the following error.
"Cannot open the Document" ...document path... "You may not have permission or the document may be open already".

[Bibito]

Thanks Dave. It solved the problem.

[Dave Saunders]

What names are you giving to the file? The problem is probably caused by your using a period before the differentiator. Try to use some other character -- there's some kind of bug in the way that InDesign manages its open files that can cause this problem if the first character that's different in two names is the first character after the first period in the names.

Dave

[Jon Marken]

Ah--this bug has come up a couple of times before and finally we have a solution. Thanks, Dave.

[k2_design]

The initial post didn't specify an operating system. If this involves OS X, then the "bug" is not ID's alone -- a period anywhere in the file name is a delimiter. Anything after is regarded as an extension.

Steve

[Dave Saunders]

No, you can have as many periods in a file name as you want. It's only that which is after the last period that is considered an extension.

I have MP3 files with names like : "1. Allegro.mp3" that cause no confusion at all in OS X. The bug is InDesign's and has been acknowledged as such by Adobe -- that's how I know about it.

Dave

[David Drake]

I cannot save an Indesign file to my server. The message is "cannot save ______ under a new name". I can drop and drag to the server, no problem. I am on OS X and the servers are Novel with software from Prosoft Engineering Netware for Mac OS X.
InDesign is the only application I have this problem with.

[Dave Saunders]

Dump those periods, they're confusing InDesign use a hyphen or just about anything other than a period.

Dave

[Patty Topel]

Dave

Hi. I didn't have the periods in the first time, I put them in hoping that it would change the endings of the file names and that would help. I took them back out and I still can't get past the error message.

Patty

[Patty Topel]

Maybe I just don't get it. I am trying to create a book. I can only move one of the 8 files into the "book palette." For all of the other files I get the message "document cannot be added because it is in you or you do not have permission." I have changed the folder location and name and changed the file names (added the .1, .2, and so on) to no avail. File names are as follows:
-FF Rosinski.1
-FM Rosinski.2
01 Rosinski.3
02 Rosinski.4
and so on...

I moved the files out of the folder "Rosinski"' and into a folder 1-85788-301-2 thinking that the same name folder would have an effect, no help there.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Patty

[Dave Saunders]

Hmmm.

Do you have the documents opened or closed when you're doing this?

I've not made much use of the Book feature, so I'm not sure what might be going on here. Perhaps it's the spaces that are causing confusion (the word part of the names all being identical could be causing this problem).

Unless of course there really is a permissions error at work here, although you seem to have dealt with that possibility by moving the files.

Dave

[Patty Topel]

Dave

You won't believe this. All of my documents are closed, but get this. I turned off the Font Reserve plugin for InDesign AFTER I last saved these documents (a month or so ago), so I had to open each one, check the "delete plug in from document" box and resave each document.

I remembered reading something about the documents having to be "InDesign 2.0..." blah blah, and I thought that MAYBE if I made sure that all was well with each document and there were no hitches that the book feature would work. Go believe, it did.

I'll be marking that down in my "head scratcher" file.

thanks for your time.

Patty