I would be curious to know how many of the users experiencing this crash behavior are using Extensis Suitcase. The crashes seem to have begun AFTER installation of Suitcase Fusion Version 18.2.1 (1311). And, if I remove Suitcase's auto-activation plugin from InDesign, the crashing seems to stop. I have not tested this extensively, but I have been unable to reproduce the crash problem with the plugin un-installed. ... View more

My previous fix appears to have been a fluke. VERY occasionally, the command will finish without causing a crash, but this seems to be the exception, rather than the rule. Based on the comments above from jeroenp7291769 and yannd53417708, I disabled the Suitcase Fusion 7 auto-activation plug-in, and InDesign would seem to function normally. When I replaced the plug-in, the crash behavior returns. I've repeated this process several times with the same results, so I am casting the blame on Extensis for the problem. I have started an official support request with Extensis and will update this thread when/if I have an answer from them. ... View more

Now my mind is boggled. I was going to run the package function again and grab the crash log data to see if there were any clues, when it suddenly worked perfectly. After crashing EVERY TIME for a week, and twice on the same document immediately before, InDesign suddenly seems to have figured out how to complete the function without the crash. I've run no updates, changed no parameters, trashed no preferences between it working and not working. I simply reopened the program after a crash, tried the package function once more, and it suddenly worked. Twice! In case some combination of actions was the fix... here's what I did: Opened a document, ran the Package command, unchecked every option so that it simply created a copy of the document, and saved it to my desktop. InDesign crashed, I re-opened it from the crash dialog box, the previously open document re-opened on it's own. I saved the document, ran the package command again with all the options checked (except document hyphenation and hidden content) and the command finished without a crash. I've now packaged 3 different files to various locations without issue. ... View more

That's usually my first troubleshooting step when I have strange behavior from an app, but as is usually the case, the obvious answer doesn't fix the problem. Thank you for the suggestion though. Being a fresh installation, I hadn't actually tried that yet. ... View more