Users might not immediately realize how their actions affect others in the workflow, and might accidentally create situations where conflicts exist between content status and ownership. If necessary, the InDesign user can resolve conflicts by unlinking a locked file checked out to a different user and taking control over the file. Unlinking a file stores the content in the InDesign document, but the content is no longer shared with InCopy.

If you edit a story that has been checked out in InCopy, you’re prompted to embed the story so that the original file’s location is remembered but the file is unlocked for editing. You can later unembed and link to the original file, or you can link to another file.