Can't save or undo in inDesign 2021

Having the exakt same annoying problem.

Indesign 2021, running OSX 11.2.1 Big Sur on an Macbook Pro 16,1.

Hi All,

Sorry to hear about your experience. Would you mind sharing version of the OS?
You may try resetting the preferences of the app manually as instructed below:

For Windows 

• Close all Adobe applications. 
• Go to Locations : 
• C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Adobe  
• C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Adobe. 
•  Rename InDesign folders to InDesign.old 
• Launch InDesign from CC. 

For MAC  

• Close all adobe applications 
• Go to Locations:  
• ~/Library/Caches 
• ~/Library/Preferences 
• Rename Adobe InDesign and com.adobe.indesign to Adobe InDesign.old and com.adobe.indesign.old 
• Launch InDesign from the CC 

***Please note that resetting preferences will remove all the custom settings and InDesign will launch with default settings. This way all your old settings will be saved in .old folders and InDesign will recreate new folders with default settings.

Let us know how it goes.

Regards,

Ashutosh

Man this is starting to get really annoying now... any help would be apreciated!! Wasting time loosing work now

This started hapening again with 2020 now.

I deleted all versions of indesign with prefrences and reinstalled 2021 —

When I opened that app it was displaying history from a year ago.

All was working well for most of the day and then it started hapening again.

What's up developers? Where's the bug? 

Hi @jasonkyle1976:

That's upsetting. My first thought is save and save often.

Are recovery files being generated when you force quit? Check the folder specified by InDesign > Preferences > File Handling > Document Recovery Data. 

Is this happening with one file or all files? Did you upgrade from 2020? Did you migrate preferences files?

~Barb