INDD indesign files - repair tool ?

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Alandata Recovery

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Apr 9, 2020, 4:44:34 PM4/9/20
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I recovered a drive recently and the main thing she wanted was the indesign files.

Of the 20 big indd files there was 1.8 gb and only 40mb of bad sectors
but all of them have bad sectors
Nothing would read the bad sectors even with tons of retries
and util mode was just garbage.

An example is a 1.2mb indd file
with 1 bad 4096 byte bad sector

but it wont open

So I am looking for a salvage or repair tool for INDD files

but I see nuttin out there.

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Never heard of it, but comes in nice pink box ;)


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Alandata Recovery

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Apr 9, 2020, 7:01:40 PM4/9/20
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Thanks!

its no longer available

prob didnt work...


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compos mentis

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Alandata Recovery

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Apr 10, 2020, 12:49:38 PM4/10/20
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thanks

I didnt know you could download files from wayback machine

thanks Ill try it.


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wayne horner

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Apr 10, 2020, 1:04:48 PM4/10/20
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trying to find ai files for phil but I dont see it as a raw type in rstudio

its adobe illustrator - maybe I am blind...


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Its really easy to set up a new file type in R-Studio these days. You can right click on the hex data of a good file and it allows you to copy the header into the new file signature.

 

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I donwloaded, but you can't active it, so kinda moot



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wayne horner

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Apr 10, 2020, 3:31:36 PM4/10/20
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good to know

AI's look like pdf's    %PDF

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Scott Moulton

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Apr 10, 2020, 4:46:50 PM4/10/20
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Except inside the document you will find, or some version of.

     xmlns:illustrator="http://ns.adobe.com/illustrator/1.0/">

         <illustrator:StartupProfile>Print</illustrator:StartupProfile>

         <illustrator:Type>Document</illustrator:Type>

 

http://www.idea2ic.com/File_Formats/Adobe%20Illustrator%20File%20Format.pdf

 

 

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Apr 10, 2020, 6:24:18 PM4/10/20
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interesting.


the spec say it should start with %!PS

and if you take an ai file and rename it pdf then it opens as a pdf.


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compos mentis

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Apr 10, 2020, 7:22:17 PM4/10/20
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Ask your customer if you can upload a damaged file. Perhaps someone could patch it so that it can work without the missing sector(s), especially now that Scott has found the spec.

Scott Moulton

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Apr 11, 2020, 8:57:58 AM4/11/20
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It varies by version. I have som old files that start with ps, later files with pdf

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wayne horner

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Apr 11, 2020, 5:58:42 PM4/11/20
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with a spec like that you would expect a parser would exist.

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Ask your customer if you can upload a damaged file. Perhaps someone could patch it so that it can work without the missing sector(s), especially now that Scott has found the spec.

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wayne horner

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May 5, 2020, 1:45:45 PM5/5/20
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Scott, or anybody

You sent me a spec for illustrator format

I need one for indesign indd files
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