Not sure if this is a Bridge or Indesign problem, but since lateste update when choosing "Reveal in Bridge" it opens Bridge, but just goes the whatever the last opened folder open was, not the one I am asking to go to. Any ideas what I can do to reset? ... View more

So suddenly when I choose Reveal in Bridge from by 2018 InDesign, it is taking me to Creative Cloud, and trying to force me to download 2019 Bridge.  I am not ready to switch to the 2019 Apps yet (have an older Mac Pro, that I'm afraid might have problems with them). Is there a way I can repoint it to the 2018 version on my Mac.  When I do the reverse (open an InDesign file from Bridge) it works fine. Just seem to be spending more and more time dealign with compatibility issues with and between my Adobe Apps these days. ... View more

I have a really bizarre and very troubling problem happening. Long story here, so bear with me: I had to rebuild my system, and restore my files from a Time Machine backup. Have an older Mac Pro with new SSD drive running High Sierra. After restoring, I started to notice that quite a few of my InDesign files were missing after doing the restore. Not all, but many pretty important ones. Nothing else was missing but ID files, and many were missing from folders in which everything else (illustrator, Acrobat & Photoshop etc.) were intact. Only seemed to affect certain files, mostly ones done in ID 2018. Older ones seemed fine, but many new ones were fine also.  It was very random. I looked on my backup drive, and in most cases the missing files were there. But they were also missing from a copy of the backup I had made to another Mac. I tried to copy the missing files over individually, but I would get a message that says "The operation can't be completed because an error occurred (error code -8003)" Yet I could open the file from my backup drive and resave it to my hard drive, and it seemed fine As I'm obsessive about backups, I also have a cloud backup system through Backblaze, and some files I was able to download from there OK. But other, older files were missing from my Backblaze backups as well. In some cases I could option-drag the files off my backup, and successfully get them that way. That led to the weirdest of all occurrences: I option dragged about a dozen files from one folder on the backup to my computer, but instead of copying 12, files, I got about 48, many older versions of the same files. This led to my aha moment, where I kind of figured what files were affected, but have no idea why. I do a lot of work that is variations or updates of recurring jobs.  Often when doing this, I will copy a file, and rename it.  From what I can tell, all the files that are missing from my restore, and won't copy back from my backup drive, are all files that I created that way. And they all seem to be files that were done in InDesign 2018.  But they are also all files that were done since I upgraded to High Sierra, and since I installed a new SSD drive. So I'm thinking this has something to do with one of these three issues, and is only affecting files that were duplicated during this period. Since I have multiple backups, and can access the files by opening them and resaving, I am hoping I haven't lost anything permanently, but I have literally thousands of files I have created this way that I need to update from time to time, so this is all freaking me out. Has anyone else experienced anything like this? ... View more

I do a lot of financial publishing work that requires pasting columns of data from Excel into Illustrator's charting feature.  A problem I have had randomly for many years, but seems to get worse with every succeeding update to Illustrator is that it will just start randomly ignoring what is on the clipboard. Things will work normally for a while, but eventually it will start pasting what was on the clipboard previously, rather than what I just cut from Excel.  I know it was cut correctly, because I can paste the new info into InDesign, Word, or any other program, and it will be right.  But if I paste into Illustrator, it is still pasting what was on the clipboard before. Another problem I see regularly, is it will just start pasting a one line code, instead of the correct column of numbers. Also sometimes it will paste everything into one cell in the data spreadsheet rather than separate cells as normal. All of these issues can be fixed be quitting and restarting Illustrator, but its getting so I have to do that quite regulalry, which is quite a hassle when producing 300 page documents. Anyone have this experience and know what causes it? ... View more