Memory issues
I began putting the current prerelease build (release candidate for InDesign 2022) through its paces on Monday. For the first time in the almost full year since I have been using this M1 MacBook Pro, the fan came roaring on, and all memory was depleted. When I started force quitting applications and consulted Activity Monitor, InDesign showed stratospheric memory use.
This doesn't happen all the time, but it seemed to degrade performance over time.
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Tom L
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Same here but with Indesign 2023 and 2024.
Mac Sonoma 14.2.1, Mac Studio Max 2, 32 GBIt happens to me with an Indesign doc of aroound 46 MB, 32 pages with maybe some heavy imported files. It seems that, when at the same time working in Acrobat (Build 23.8.20458.0) with a 57 MB large pdf of that same Indesign document, Indesign freaks out en stops working. System lets me know that I have to close some other apps like PS, AI and safari. But doing so doesn't help. With Indesign still open I saw a memory usage of Indesign of more than 165 GB. Btw, Acrobat is so slow in opening any big (50MB or so) pdf lately that it seems my Mac Studio is as slow as a 12 years old iMac...
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Lucianne
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I'm having this too - and I upload tomorrow on this project!!! Is there a workaround to go back to the previous version? I have an M1 and it has worked perfectly until today - when it's really important!
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Oscar
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Same here. I had this issue with Illustrator and dreamweaver as well, although after recent and small updates that stopped happening, however, this is still an issue with indesign.
I have an M1 iMac (8gb ram and 256 SSD) no matter how small or big the project I'm working on is, after about 10mins it takes over 90% of all available memory! Although I have adjusted to saving and quitting after every 10mins, I would love for this not to be an issue in the first place.
Details: I open the application to work on school projects. Some projects as small as 1 spread and only text (no images) and some over 10 pages with many images. The bigger projects cap out memory around the same time as the smaller ones. I turn down display graphics and even try using CPU preview instead of GPU, this does nothing to the performance. Indesign works great with no buffers and is incredibly smooth up until the very moment the macOS brings up the dialogue screen that asks me to force quit applications to avoid computer damage.