thanks

I concur with the comment saying we need a robust system for syncing our preferences and presets between devices! Let me sync my settings between my laptop and my desktop.

Same here. Panels not loading or unable to open them at program start. Restart required. Getting a bit tired of this. This has been going on for years now, same accounts for Photoshop / Illustrator BTW.

TIP: delete InDesign caches first, this often solves many problems.

On Mac delete them here:

User/Library/Caches/

Delete these folders:

1) Adobe Indesign
2) com.adobe.InDesign

When this doesn't work then delete preferences, setup InDesign again (yes, sigh, again!). Quit InDesign and copy the Preferences folder to a different location. Find ID preferences here:

User/Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesign/Version XX — in my case Version 14

When InDesign goes awry again (yes, again) just quit and copy the preferences folder you saved back to the system preferences folder, overwrite existing ID prefs folder and be done. For a while at least. This saves you some time setting up the whole application again.

This has been irritating us for years - it's not a new problem with CC2017. However, it seems to be fixed with CC2019 for us. We have been using it for a couple of weeks without it happening.

In addition to this: we need a robust system for syncing our preferences and presets between devices.

until this is resolved, would this solution work? http://in-tools.com/article/scripts-blog/preference-manager-script/

The work of maintenance to support a designer is being done. Restoration of the environment of the designer is very important work by the operational part. Building of the environment that you can restore more easily is expected.

デザイナーをサポートするメンテナンスの仕事をしています。その作業の一環でデザイナーの環境の復元は非常に大事な仕事です。より簡単に復元できる環境の構築を期待します

Many Japanese users have complained about this, too.
All users customize their preferences. After delete preference files is done, our customized preferences also disappear (it returns to the default setting). Whenever we do delete preference files, we have to recover them one by one, again, and again, and again.... This recovery work is a huge problem. This extra workflow wastes a lot of our times always. I request new feature that restores the user’s customize preferences at the same time as delete preference files.

Japanese translation:
多くの日本のユーザーもこれについて不満を言っています。
すべてのユーザーは環境設定をカスタマイズしています。しかし、環境設定の初期化で関連ファイルの削除が行われると、その度にデフォルトに戻り、カスタマイズした設定が消失してしまいます。この消失はきわめて大きな問題です。その度に設定をしなおすことになり、ユーザーは常に過重な負担を強いられています。これを改善する方法として、環境設定初期化時にユーザーのカスタマイズ設定を自動復元する機能をリクエストします。

it's true, I reset pref olso 2/3 times a week, i thought the problem was my old macpro... but seems the blame is to find in other place...