Sanyam Talwar was able to save my file as an idml. I was unable to open it. It would seem InDesign crashed while I had a cursor open in a text block for the story that corrupted the file.

I had reinstalled InDesign, reset preferences, copied the file to other locations, tried opening it on another computer, restarted my computer, and all to no success.

It was only Sanyam’s help that showed me the value of Adobe and got me back to speed.