Participating Frequently

Question

InDesign Crashes on duplicating text or object frames

Forum|Forum|11 months ago
January 30, 2025
17 replies
4999 views

I recently updated to the latest InDesign 2025 version via the creative cloud. Now every couple of hours when I am using it and I hold option and drag a text or object frame to duplicate it the program now crashes. It doesnt happen every time and when I reopen the program the drag to duplicate function works fine but then after a couple more files or an hour or two go by and it will happen again. These are all different files with different elements with no common link between them and it was not occuring before this latest patch.

Abhishek Rao

Community Manager

Hi everyone,

The InDesign 20.2 update is now fully rolled out and available for download. If you’re still experiencing crashes when using Option + Drag, I would highly recommend updating to 20.2 and testing again. Let me know if the issue persists!

Also, we’ve seen some reports of InDesign 20.2 crashing when closing documents, and the product team has isolated the issue to a conflict with the Typeface app. If you're using Typeface, please check out this thread: 20.2 Update - InDesign Crashes and test the suggested workaround.

Looking forward to your updates!

^

Abhishek

H

Henry Brewer

Participating Frequently

Use an older version and do not update it anymore. I'm using version 19.5.1, and it's the last stable version (without annoying popus) I'll be using before I switch to Affinity.

Abhishek Rao

Community Manager

Hey everyone,

Thanks for your patience. I checked with the product team, and they confirmed that a bug was already logged for this issue, and the fix is included in the latest InDesign PR build.

If you’re still experiencing crashes when using Option + Drag, I’d highly recommend testing the PR build to see if it resolves the issue. You can access it by following the steps in this blog: How to Join the Creative Cloud Prerelease Program

Give it a shot and let me know if it helps! Looking forward to your feedback.

^

Abhishek

C

Claire Schatzle

New Participant

That link does not work and leads to a 404 page.

rochinha

New Participant

Hi,
I've had the same issue with option drag in Indesign 20.1. It doesn't happen every time I use option+drag, but many many times. I'm on a iMac i5 2017, running Ventura 13.7.4. I also downgraded to version 19.5.2 which doesn't cause this issues, but it's a bit frustrating because I'm working with files from other designers and have to ask for the idml version.

D

dhmdesigner

Participating Frequently

I've been experiencing the same issue with option drag. I'm on a MacBook Pro M2 running Ventura 13.7. Upon upgrading to InDesign 2025, it crashes every time I option drag. Sent every crash report to Adobe. I went back to InDesign 2024, no problems. I uninstalled and reinstalled 2025. Option drag worked briefly but went back to its buggy self. Also the line stroke option wouldn't show the line end (arrows, etc) options. Here's the kicker, three designer co-workers have the exact same computer configurations and OS as I do, so I asked them if they were experiencing this problem and none of them said they were. Hope it's fixed soon. I'm not sure I want to move to Sequoia just yet. Thanks for all the helpful info!

leo.r

Community Expert

I've been experiencing the same issue with option drag. I'm on a MacBook Pro M2 running Ventura 13.7. Upon upgrading to InDesign 2025, it crashes every time I option drag.

By @dhmdesigner

Are you running InDesign 20.1? It appears that this bug was introduced in that version. If so, try to revert to an earlier version of InDesign 2025 (Creative Cloud app, find InDesign, then Other Versions menu). It fixed the issue for some users (although earlier versions have their own set of issues, some of which were fixed in 20.1).

D

dhmdesigner

Participating Frequently

Yep, it's 20.1. 2024 version is 19.5.2 which I mentioned I reverted back to and is working just fine. Just have to do a workaround for any recent projects done in 20.1, save as an idml file and open in version 19.5.2. Doesn't suck as much as 15+ crashes a day. Thanks for the reply leo.r!

Abhishek Rao

Community Manager

Hello everyone,

Thanks for sharing the details. I tested this issue on macOS Sequoia and Windows 11 but was unable to reproduce it. Based on reports from users in this thread, updating to the latest Sequoia version has helped resolve the issue. I recommend giving that a try.

Thank you to the experts for their insights and suggestions! Adding to it, were any of you able to submit a crash report via the Adobe Crash Reporter dialog box? If not, please submit the report, ensuring you include your email address. Once submitted, share the same email with me via DM on the Community, so I can review the report.
Reference: Submit Crash Reports.

I’d also appreciate it if you could confirm whether the issue persists when running your system in Safe Mode:

macOS: Start Mac in Safe Mode

Looking forward to your updates!

^

Abhishek

Dave Creamer of IDEAS

Community Expert

Just a note: Sequoia had a minor update a couple of days ago. It is now at 15.3.1.

David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)

T

thatjessjohnson

New Participant

Just adding to the chorus, I'm having the same issue very consistently. Gonna try downgrading versions, but considering the cost of Adobe's subscription products, it's certainly frustrating.

Robert at ID-Tasker

Brainiac

@thatjessjohnson

What platform, OS and InDesign versions?

Just in case it's Windows 11:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/issue-with-origin-position-when-moving-objects/t...

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/selection-tool-issue-in-indesign-2025/td-p/15141...

K

kousca

New Participant

Same problem here: MacBook Pro 2,4 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9 – Ventura 13.5.2

Since the last Update - January 2025, everytime I copy a Textbox it crashes. Seems this is a major issue… ?
Even with IDML it crashes over and over again. Deleting preferences, done. Indesign continues to crash… Grrrr

L

lauri_7337

New Participant

Having exact same issue with Indesign (2025) version 20.1. Had to go back to InDesign 2024 version.

System: MacOs Sonoma 14.4 / Apple M3 Max with 128 RAM.

Dave Creamer of IDEAS

Community Expert

I'm on an M1 with Sequoia 15.3 without problems. You could do a Time Machine backup (in case you want go back to Sonoma), upgrade to Sequoia 15.3 and see what happens. Otherwise, try dropping down to InDesign 2024.

David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)