Today, in the late afternoon, when I am about to finish the work, my Windows 11 computer crashed after trying to install something. Actually, I am in the middle of working a magazine layout in Adobe InDesign. The PC freeze for some seconds before restarting itself. I couldn't access the app at all; thus I left my InDesign work unsaved before it was restarted.
After the restart, I tried to open it. But InDesign could not recover their own file. I tried several times, and no hope at all.
Luckily, I did all my project work within a folder that is synced to Google Drive. I right click the damaged InDesign file, and choose "Manage Version in Google Drive". I really hoped that the previous version is safe so I will not wasting my time recreate the hard work I did in the past hours.
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| Absolutely a sanity-saver |
How lucky I am that I use this cloud backup service. The previous file exist in a safe and sound condition! I opened it into InDesign, and my work was preserved. Only few changes I did after Ctrl+S was left behind, which is no big deal... at least not a major recreating stuff. I welcome this with a massive arms wide open.
I thank myself to always save my file in such periodic timing. I did my part well, but imagine not having cloud sync backup? My all-hard work from this morning is completely lost into oblivion. Adobe InDesign inability to create a recovery file or recovering their own file is suck, but having it backed up into the Google Drive saving it from a mega disaster moment.
I think this is a good lesson learned. I am here not to bootlicking Google Drive or any cloud service, but the benefit is super evident from this case. You will never know when your work app crashes and cannot recover the last saved file.
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