InDesign is being naughty!

Natobasso

Natobasso

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Been using InDesign on a G5 (1.6GHz with 1.25GB of RAM) at an on-site project and my InDesign was installed in April and has been working fine till this last Friday when it started crashing.

Here's the crash parameters: In the pallets window I have "Books" set up so whenever I open them I can see which ones are open (lots of files to organize). I used a JOHNWAYNE book a while back, but now it keeps cropping up as a ghost book (nothing in it) and whenever I try to remove or close it it crashes my InDesign.

This is making it impossible to use InDesign. Anyone have a clue what the heck to do? I did delete the preference file (only after testing the program with the pref file on the desktop) and I have rebooted so many times all I can see is the gray start up screen and the spinning "line-wheel" of fun.

Argh.
 
which version is this? 2.0 or CS? I know that unless you have updated 2.0 to 2.0.1 & 2.0.2, ID will crash at startup.
 
I have version 3.0.

I actually fixed it by dragging a copy of the very same program and replacing old with new. Viola. No more problem. Guess there are some prefs within the app folder for InDesign that can get corrupted.

Thanks for the idea!
 
in my experience with adobe apps, the preferences seem to get corrupted often ... is that true of ur experience? what the deal with that ...
 
(strange, but I am not receiving my macosx post emails anymore. Something wrong with the site that you know of, fuzz? Hmm.)

I have seen that in my experience. Feels like the more you use the program the more it "remembers" until it gets itself stuck in a knot. Just replacing the entire program did the trick. Didn't even have to do a reinstall; just lucky that I had an exact copy of the program on a back up hard drive. Phew!
 
Yes, Adobe products on both Mac and PC need to have their preferences scrapped every now and again. There's a key combination to press on startup if I remember correctly that flushes the internal preferences (in Photoshop at very least), but the exact keys escape me
 
Texan

That sounds pretty logical. i am sure I can "google" it to find the proper combination. Thanks!
 
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