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Last updated on
Apr 27, 2021
When working with random InCopy documents (Old/New), checking In and checking Out at certain intervals causes corruption in the underlying structure of these icml files. This corruption occurs due to an extra <xml></xml> node is automatically added at uncertain location within an icml document.
To fix these corrupt InCopy documents follow below steps
Download UltraEdit or TextEdit on Mac/Windows.
Open the corrupted icml file within TextEdit/UltraEdit
Press Ctrl+F to start finding the node entry: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
When a second entry of this exact node entry: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> is found, delete the text starting from the second instance of tag
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
and deleting till the first instance of tag </Document>
Save the icml file and open the icml file within InCopy or place it within InDesign to continue working with the document.
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