InDesign crashes whenever story editor is opened
Story editor is unavailable because the crash happens as soon as I open it. On MacBook Air chip M1, Indesign 16.4. Also text in text frames disappears ,and F8 does not work as a shortcut to info.
Frankie
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H Chinaski
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+1. InDesign 19.3 on an MBP M3 Max.
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Mhast
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I don't know if this is helpful - just went through this with one my team who's on an M2 Macbook Air (Sonoma). We narrowed it down to the Properties panel interacting weirdly with Story Editor. Either would work fine so long as the other wasn't enabled. As we're pretty ensconced in the pre-Properties panel workflow it was an easy decision to drop it - now SE's happy all the time, no more crashes.
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Virginia Bruce
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Mine is intermittent, sometime Story Editor works for 10-15 tries and then begins crashing. Sometimes IDD crashes when I do an operation in SE such as cutting and pasting.
These crashes seem to corrupt the file since if I reopen, it happens immediately the next time I try to invoke SE.IDD 19.3 on a 2019 iMac running 14.4.1 (everything updated).
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Virginia Bruce
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So what's the point of this page if nobody is offering solutions? Why am I here?
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Virginia Bruce
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I try everything: making a copy of the file, renaming it, saving as...it works for a while and then crashes. WHY can't this be fixed?
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cb
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started crashing after most recent adobe CC updates intel 2020 iMac ind 2022 17.4.1
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Jen Beale
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This is happening in 19.0 and 19.1 using Windows 11.
Had to go back to 18 so I could see tracked changes. -
barbara commented
This is still a huge problem. Story Editor is so useful...
MacBook Pro w/Intel processor, OS 13.2.1, InDesign 2021, 2022, 2023
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JA
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Anytime I use the Story Editor there is a high probability Adobe Indesign crashes. I am using the latest version of Adobe Indesign on an Apple Macbook Pro 2017 on OSX 12.5.1 Monterey. This problem seems to happen to others as seen in this forum thread here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/indesign-crashing-when-opening-story-editor-mac-m1/m-p/12472886
Scroll to the bottom of the thread to see others with the same problem which has not been solved by the listed solutions. I have also tried exporting the document as IDML and then opening that with the same problem. I have also tried resetting my preferences. I still have this problem on any document.