Cannot open file due to deleting hyperlinks in Indesign CC 2018
I was deleting the list of hyperlinks in my file and it crashed. So I kept saving the file after every hyperlink I had deleted so that I can find out which one was the root problem, but now I cannot even open the file as it just crashes immediately it opens. At this moment in time I have to do the whole job again.
To identify the cause of this issue, we had started our investigation with the aim to resolve it. You might have also received email from us seeking more details to help in our investigation.
We’ve concluded our investigation and came up with the finding : Either the issue is fixed in the latest release of InDesign or the issue was intermittent in nature at the time of its reporting and is not reproducible now.
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To identify the cause of this issue, we had started our investigation with the aim to resolve it. You might have also received email from us seeking more details to help in our investigation.
We’ve concluded our investigation and came up with the finding : Either the issue is fixed in the latest release of InDesign or the issue was intermittent in nature at the time of its reporting and is not reproducible now.
We recommend you to upgrade to the latest version of InDesign 2020 (if you’re not already on it). It contains a lot of stability fixes.
If you still face this issue even after updating to the latest version of InDesign, please submit the crash report to us. (The guidelines to submit crash are available at (https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/submit-crash-reports.html)
We seek your support in our continual effort to improve InDesign.—
Adobe InDesign Team -
We have released InDesign 2020.0.1 with a lot of stability fixes. We recommend you to upgrade to latest version (if you’re not already on it) as it is more robust.
If you still face this issue even after updating, please submit the crash report to us. (Guidelines to submit crash are available at (https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/submit-crash-reports.html)
Also, please send the following information to santalwa@adobe.com:
• Reproducible Steps – What were you doing when InDesign crashed?
• Video recording of the crash?
• Is(Are) the issue related to a specific document(s)/asset(s)? If yes, could you provide the document(s)/asset(s) to us? Please package the entire document (To package the document, choose File → Package…)—
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sree commented
I am also having this problem! Is there any patch or solution that we can use? I am using InDesign CC 2019 14.0 (server).
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Hi,
Myself Sanyam Talwar from InDesign Engineering team, I am currently investigating the current issue.During our analysis of issue mentioned in the thread, we found that you had reported a crash with an older release of InDesign.
We have released InDesign CC2019.0.1 with lot of stability fixes. If you are not on 14.0.1.209 then I would recommend you to upgrade to latest version as it is more robust.
If you still face an issue with the latest release, please submit the crash report. Guidelines to submit crash are available at https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/submit-crash-reports.html
Also, Please send the following information to santalwa@adobe.com.
• OS
• System configuration
• Reproducible Steps – What were you doing when InDesign crashed?
• Error snapshot or video recording of the issue?
• Is(Are) the issue related to a specific document(s)/asset(s)? If Yes, Can you please provide the document(s)/asset(s)?
• Does Trashing preference and cache, please create a backup of Preference and cache before trashing them, help to resolve the issue?Regards
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Lulu commented
I am also having this problem! Is there any patch or solution that we can use? I can only find a patch for InDesign CC 2017
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Rhiannon Miller commented
I have this problem too with one of my files. I can't so much as open the hyperlinks panel without ID crashing. Using AppleScript, I have deleted every hyperlink destination, link and source except the corrupt hyperlink source, but I can't find any way of deleting the remaining link source which doesn't crash InDesign.
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Gemma commented
I'm also crashing when trying to delete hyperlinks. The file is an update of a report so the original was created in an older version of InDesign now saved in 2018. Not having issues with URLs but the contents of the report had links to pages within the document which are now wrong. Initially I was just going to delete them all and start again but it crashed several times. I've narrowed it down to 4 I can't delete without crashing, also can't delete the text box they're in without crashing. I seem to be able to update them to the correct pages but not over keen on leaving something I know can crash the document in there.
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Scott commented
Having the same problem here
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Manon commented
I'm facing the exact same problem. And even once I identified the corrupt link, (I restaured old backup of the file), ID crashes if I try to delete the Table of Content text box where the link is or even if I try to erase the full page where the TOC is.