multiple versions of files from book open upon "converting"
- Opened book (.indb) file saved in previous version of InDesign.
- Double-clicked all the individual files to open them up in InDesign which is a new version (18.0 x64). A warning appeared saying the files will need to be converted if I renumber, etc.
- I used the book file to open all the files and immediately resaved them to update them.
- I made edits to one of the files from the book, and saved.
- Colleagues came on and I used the Book file to bounce between the different document files.
- To quickly save out all my changes, I simply close InDesign and say Yes, Overwrite as the prompts come up. This is when I noticed that it was taking too long for InDesign to close out. Turns out that when I had used the Book file to bounce between files, it didn't actually bounce but instead opened up a second version of the same files, without my edits! As I was closing/saving/overwriting, an older copy of my edited file overwrote my edited file because it had the same name! I lost half a day's work! InDesign book files should not be able to open two versions of the same file at the same time using the same name! Even Microsoft is smart enough to add a "(1)" at the end of a file name to avoid this problem. Please fix ASAP. See screenshots. Thank you.
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