Reply To: Indesign Crash.. no recovery

I am late to the party, so we may be too late.

There might be some hope. Do you also have the original files which InDesign won’t open?
I might be mistaken, but I think the “DBTmp…” recovery files contain some data about the “changes” that were made to the document and so the recovery can “merge” them.

It turns out the MarkzTools plugin for InDesign we develop will actually open and convert the recovery files, but often they do not contain much data. That is often the problem.

Thus, can send us both the original bad file along with the DBTmp as there is a chance we might be able to salvage something.
(From the sounds of it, you never saved the file to start with though – but just want to be sure)

Friendly Regards,
David Dilling
Markzware