Error message 'failed to upon doc'

[Jim Monson]

Working on an aPub doc (v1) with imported aPub (v1) and aDesign  (v1) docs. Every 'save' and 'save as' has worked as usual yesterday when working on this doc.

All of a sudden the error message below appeared today while trying 'save' and saved as.' Now *all* copies of this doc from today *and* yesterday receive the same error messages (both using 'save' and 'save as'). All of my other aPub docs come up fine. I have quit aPub and rebooted but still get this error message.

Any suggestions? 

[R C-R]

Were these files ever opened directly from a cloud storage location or saved directly back to one instead of first working on them locally? What about a local folder synced with one on a cloud service?

Also, when you say all copies, are you including the aPub & AD files you imported into this APub file or just that one file?

[Jim Monson]

None of these files or folders were or are on the cloud. Parts of the file(s) were imported as aPub or aDes files from my iMacPro, and these were 'placed' in picture frames. This might be the problem. I should have placed these outside aPub and aDes files (a raster doc with all of their vector layers) in rectangles rather than in picture frames. 

I finally got an earlier aPub file to open so am trying the non-picture frame approach now. The 'file type' in the error message might cover a variety of problems.

[R C-R]

24 minutes ago, Jim Monson said:

Parts of the file(s) were imported as aPub or aDes files from my iMacPro, and these were 'placed' in picture frames.

It is not clear what you mean by this. Can you explain more about how you 'imported' them from your iMP, what 'parts' you imported, & specifically how you 'placed' those parts (like via drag & drop, with the File > Place command, or something else)? 

[Jim Monson]

I found one previous backup doc that did open and thus my immediate problem is solved. To answer your question, I drag/drop raster assets and ofther aPub docs into my main doc. I should remember to 'place' rather than to drag/drop since they are not the same. In one case I mistakenly drag/drop another aPub doc into a picture frame that may have confused aPub of my main doc and made it unable to open my main doc.

Whatever the case, there is no way to discover what made the main doc give the error message above. Thanks for you willingness to help, but I up and running now with the backup doc I had (before the drag/drop above) and thus am not going to try to figure out what caused the problem.