Since I've moved to working remotely entirely, I've noticed how quickly using several Adobe programs burns through my laptop battery. I'm running a brand new 16" Macbook Pro with the latest MacOS Catalina version, and I'm lucky if I get an hour and a half of battery life while running InDesign and Illustrator at the same time. When I review what is using the most battery life, my Mac lists InDesign, Illustrator, and Core Sync as the main culprits.

Now, I understand that these programs at times are fairly graphically intensive, but the battery life I'm getting is absymal, and I'm not even currently working on artwork that is using a lot of complex effects; we're talking basic shape and stroke icons and simple text and shape layouts.

Can you please work on optimizing the programs to prevent excessive battery draining? Core Sync in particular is really confusing; what exactly is it doing? I've even paused file syncing, but that hasn't seemed to do anything.

Before updating to the latest version of ID, I would get an error each time I tried to use the <cs> tag to format a cross-reference. It wouldn't let me save the data.

Now it lets me save the data, but it just strips the tag out.

I have a character setting called Bold.

I defined a cross-reference format as:
<cs style="Bold"><fullPara /></cs> on page <pageNum />

I save it, and I click OK. Then I reopen the format page, and it says the following:
<fullPara /> on page <pageNum />

It's like the tag never existed. No matter what I try, the tag never saves. I can apply a character style to the entire cross-reference, but not half of it. It is all or nothing. I can make text changes to the tag like adding quotes without a problem.

We are a group of 16 graphic designers working on Macs. Our OS are varied between Sierra, High Sierra and Mojave. We work in InDesign 14.03 and 15.02 (with linked InCopy assets), Bridge 9.1 and 10.03, Photoshop 20.0.8 and 21.1, and Illustrator 23.1.1 and 24.1. We work on Box Drive and store our layout files and absolute-linked image assets there. It is critical that we are able to work on each others’ files in a high-volume, high-production environment. We don’t believe this is an issue related to our connection speeds.

Looking for a resolution to these issues:

InDesign: Not all image and InCopy files are automatically updating / relinking to original assets on Box. This occurs when both original and different users open the InDesign file to edit it.

Box Drive: Writers cannot always see ICML and Assignments files on Box Drive (in the Finder) after an Art Director has exported them for the writer to work on. This typically occurs shortly after exporting the assets.

Bridge: time to load image previews can take up to 15 minutes for some designers.

Since the release of InDesign 2020 there frequently appears a circumstantial bug, that is not reasonable in any way:

When i double click (edit) or just copy any text-box, suddenly the content is moving downwards (about 3pt), so that it disappears in overflow text and has to be realigned. It even happens when I copy and paste those Elements or duplicate the whole page, so one of the most fundamental functions became futile (image "Adobe-Indesign-Bug-duplicate.jpg")!

Additional the maximum height of the box, before the text disappears in overset, isn't depending on the contents height like in older versions, but is expanded on the upper side instead (see image "Adobe-Indesign-Bug-copy-paste.jpg" in attachment)

Sometimes it even changes the whole stlye, color AND size!!!! ("Adobe-Indesign-Bug-copy-paste2.jpg").

I checked everything that may be possible - without results. It sitll appears after saving older documents in 2020 version...

Hence, every template i ever created is useless and time-consuming!
ADOBE PLEASE DO SOMETHING, THIS IS RIDICULOUS AND ANNOYING!

Anybody experiencing similar problems? Thanks for reply.

Update: Bug doesn't appear on another PC with similar settings. But it still appears after uninstalling old version, reinstalling new version and even after deleting all folders and setups in adobe file path.... Still stumped for an answer...

I'm on a Windows laptop with a Core i7, 16 gb of ram and a dedicated GPU. Up until the 15.0.2 update there was some hitching and slowdown with these large files (and I noticed a weird bug where hitting T to use the Type tool doesn't actually change the tool) but now editing text can take up to 10 minutes with more than one file open. I can't make a screencast at the moment since I had to reinstall 15.0.1 to complete the project on time but the filesize we're talking about is 50-75mb, ~60 pages or so with about 300 linked images (it's a catalog).