Running InDesign 16.0.1 on Catalina. Mac workstation connected SMB to Windows server.

InDesign crashes shortly after working in a different program and returning to InDesign. Report the crash then try to reopen InDesign from doc icon (or CC). It crashes again. Report, reopen from doc icon (or CC, or in applications folder). Get error message that InDesign crashed trying to load the recovery file, can't locate the recovery file. In order to open InDesign I must click "no" to not try to recover the file.

I have reset preferences, created a new workspace (instead of using previous version's saved workspace), uninstalled and reinstalled several times.

Mostly returning to InDesign from Chrome – Version 87.0.4280.88 (Official Build) (x86_64). Or from Photoshop 22.1.

The recovery folder has 70 files from Oct.-Dec. 2020.

Attached are screenshots of the crash reports and the error message from InDesign. There was only one doc open and it was saved with a filename, there was no "untitled" file open.

InDesign crashes when doing the following:

1. Open or Create a document.
2. Enable split layout view
3. Create a text frame in each view
4. Fill one of the text frames with type
5. Cut some of the type into the other frame
6. Cut some more of the type from the filled frame
7. Copy the text in the other frame
8. Undo the cutting of the text
9. Re-cut the text
10. Paste the text into the other frame
11. CRASH

Video of the bug: https://youtu.be/ex7BsXfeSUA

This is present in both ID 15.X and ID 16.0 and crashes with documents created in both new and old versions of InDesign.

Hello,

I'm using InDesign 15.1.2 on a brand new Macbook Pro.

Several times a day InDesign crashes. It seems to happen most often when:
- my computer goes into sleep mode and I reawaken it

but it sometimes happens when:
- I copy text from a word document or email, and then try and paste it into a text frame within InDesign.

Sometimes it happens for no reason, when I am using another program.

I have spent a lot of time on the Adobe community page trying various solutions but nothing seems to have worked. I have 'problem reports' from the crash.

Can anybody direct me to somebody who I can work with to try and resolve the issue?

File Info box not displaying when trying to add metadata. CC2020 15.1.1, Mac OS Catalina 10.15.5, external Dell monitor. I have tried reopening and overwriting preference files then restart. I have tried deleting library cache for cc15 and then restart. I have disconnected external monitor and restarted. Only solution has been to reopen as cc2019 doc and add there, but some clients make additional changes in 2020 and send back so I still have same issue. I keep having to force quit to get program to restart each time I try and open file info.
I saw someone had issue in 2019, but no responses had been noted. Mine DOES work in 2019, but bugs in 2020, so I try not to use it.

The "Create Alternate Layout" in indesign 2020 v15.01 is toxic.

After using it, chances are high that documents will at some later stage become corrupt. It may manifest itself by crashing on copy/paste or just a spinning beachball of death (Mac).

I have seen this on at least 20 different documents since upgrading from version 2019 to version 2020 (15.0.1). We never used version 15.0.

This is my guess on what happens:
Using "Create Alternate Layout" it will make some of the Paragraph Styles corrupt. Version 2020 seems to crash (beachball) whenever one of these are accessed. This might very well be when you open the document, making the whole document inaccessable. It also might happen at a later stage, a minute or two after you have opened the document. (Maybe when some routine tries to read some of the corrupt text styles?)

Maybe "Copy Text Styles to New Group" is also involved in the plot.

We are using fairly advanced Paragraph styles with nested styles, based on styles, grep styles, rules etc.

If I try to use ID 2019 to open the corrupt document using the "Convert" feature, it will somewhat surprisingly likely manage to do so. As opposed to v2020 that only crashes. It will however delete most or all of the Paragraph Styles and assign Standard to all text leaving the document a royal mess. We have not tried to continue to work on such a "Salavaged" document, so if it is still "usable" I do not know.

Using the exact same features on the same documents in version 2019 never produced such corrupt documents. This has been rampant since upgrading to v2020.

(I have samples, but not for posting publicly.)

Version: InDesign 15.0.1 x64
Issue(s): 1. One example is that when working in InDesign and go to save a file the application shows that the icon is spinning and never seems to stop spinning. Then an error message pops up on the screen indicating some sort of issue and then the application crashes to the desktop.
2. When opening up a file that I have been working on it takes a while to open and when it does open it opens a prior file that I was working on.
Expected Results: 1. When saving a file I am expecting the application to save as normal and to bring me back to the application and not crash.
2. To open the file that I requested to be opened.
Actual Result: 1. File does not save as expected, errors out and then the application crashes.
2. File requested to be opened opens, but opens with another file as well.
Example: See attached Windows Event log for application crash details for issue #1.