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                    Recovery and undo
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                <br clear="both" /><div id="minitoc"><div class="t"><div class="b"><div class="l"><div class="r"><div class="bl"><div class="br"><div class="tl"><div class="tr"><div><h3>Contents [<a href="#" onclick="return toggleMiniToc('minitoc-links', this);" class="hideLink">Hide</a>]</h3><ul id="minitoc-links"><li><p><a href="#WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d14a"><h3 class="topictitle3">Recover documents</h3>
</a></p><ul><li><p><a href="#WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d13a"><h4 class="topictitle4">Find recovered documents</h4>
</a></p></li><li><p><a href="#WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d12a"><h4 class="topictitle4">Change the location of recovered documents</h4>
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<div id="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d14a" class="nochunk"><a name="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d14a"></a><h2 class="topictitle2">Recover documents</h2><div><div class="section"><p>InDesign guards your data against unexpected
power or system failures using an automatic recovery feature. Automatically
recovered data exists in a temporary file that is separate from
the original document file on disk. Under normal circumstances you
don’t need to think about automatically recovered data, because
any document updates stored in the automatic recovery file are automatically
added to the original document file when you choose the Save or Save
As command or exit from InDesign normally.
Automatically recovered data is important only if you’re unable
to save successfully before an unexpected power or system failure.</p>
<p>Even
though these features exist, you should save your files often and
create backup files in case of unexpected power or system failures.</p>
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</div><div id="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d13a" class="nochunk"><a name="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d13a"></a><h3 class="topictitle3">Find recovered documents</h3><div><ol><li class="stepexpand"><span>Restart your computer.</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>Start InDesign.</span> <p>If automatically recovered data exists, InDesign automatically displays the recovered
document. The word [Recovered] appears after the filename in the title
bar of the document window to indicate that the document contains unsaved
changes that were automatically recovered.</p>
<div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:  </span>If InDesign fails after attempting to open
a document using automatically recovered changes, the automatically
recovered data may be corrupted.</div>
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<li class="stepexpand"><span>Do one of the following:</span><ul><li><p>To save the recovered data, choose File&#160;&gt;
Save As, specify a location and a new filename, and click Save.
The Save As command keeps the recovered version that includes the
automatically recovered data; the word [Recovered] disappears from
the title bar.</p>
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<li><p>To discard automatically recovered changes and use
the most recent version of the document that was explicitly saved
to disk before the failure occurred, close the file without saving
it and open the file on disk, or choose File&#160;&gt; Revert.</p>
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</div></div><div id="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d12a" class="nochunk"><a name="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d12a"></a><h3 class="topictitle3">Change the location of recovered documents</h3><div><ol><li><span>Choose Edit&#160;&gt; Preferences&#160;&gt;
File Handling (Windows) or InDesign&#160;&gt; Preferences&#160;&gt;
File Handling (Mac&#160;OS).</span></li>
<li><span>Under Document Recovery Data, click Browse (Windows)
or Choose (Mac&#160;OS).</span></li>
<li><span>Specify the new location for the recovered document,
click&#160;Select (Windows) or Choose (Mac OS), and then click&#160;OK.</span></li>
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necessary, you can cancel a lengthy operation before it’s completed,
undo recent changes, or revert to a previously saved version. You
can undo or redo up to several hundred of the most recent actions
(the amount is limited by the amount of RAM available and the kinds
of actions you performed). The series of actions is discarded when
you choose the Save As command, close a document, or when you exit
from the program.</p>
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<div class="p"><span><img src="images/dingbat.png" />&#160;Do one of the following:</span><ul><li><p>To undo the most recent change, choose
Edit&#160;&gt; Undo <var class="varname">[action]</var>. (You cannot undo
certain actions, such as scrolling.)</p>
</li>
<li><p>To redo an action, choose Edit&#160;&gt; Redo <var class="varname">[action]</var>.</p>
</li>
<li><p>To undo all changes made since the last time you
saved the project, choose File&#160;&gt; Revert (InDesign) or
File &gt; Revert Content (InCopy).</p>
</li>
<li><p>To close a dialog box without applying changes,
click Cancel.</p>
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