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casinclaire
casinclaire
Inspiring
December 18, 2025
Question

InDesign 2026 -- full of peculiar behavior

  • December 18, 2025
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I updated to InD 2026 today (on 12/17/25) and am already ready to go back to InD 2025.  So far ...

 

  • Even though I properly save and close a document before exiting InD, the next time I open InD, I get a message that says that the same document is damaged and would I like to open anyway.
  • InD 2026 is not remembering my choices.  I have to reset to my preferred workspace each time I open. 
  • When I save and close a document only using the keyboard, the whole program closes instead.
  • InD also won't hold my View setting. I like to work with Overprint Preview on all the time (I have plenty of RAM), but it won't stick.
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These are things I've noticed just in one day. Anyone else having trouble? Is it worth sticking it out? Does it get any better?

 

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Manan JoshiCommunity Expert
Community Expert
December 18, 2025

Hi @casinclaire,

1. For the damaged document thing. Does this happen to all documents or a particular one.

2. Could there be some permission issues causing this? Did you update or install from scratch? Try uninstalling along with removing preferences and then reinstall. Provide full disk access to the application if you are on a MAC

3. Please specify the OS you are using that could help others share their expereinces as well and try your scenarios

-Manan

-Manan
casinclaire
casinclaireAuthor
Inspiring
December 20, 2025

Hi, Manan.  Thanks for the reply. Sorry, I forgot to say that my OS is Windows 10.

I have uninstalled the newest version and reverted to the previous version. I'm going to leave it that way for now and give the newer version a try a little later on when it's had time to get the bugs out.  I'll post back at that time if there's improvement -- or not.  Thanks much!

 

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Manan JoshiCommunity Expert
Community Expert
December 22, 2025

Thanks foe the update @casinclaire. General rule that most of us follow is to not take our production work to the latest version untill we see it getting stabilized. That saves a lot of time and frustration

-Manan

-Manan
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