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December 13, 2019
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InDesign crashing on Windows 10 Pro

  • December 13, 2019
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I have a Windows 10 Pro machine, Lenovo Thinkstation with nVidia graphics card, 16GB of RAM, 500GB SSD hard drive. The system is experiencing some freezing from time to time, mostly when using Adobe InDesign. 

 

I just connected to his machine remotely, when he attempted to save his changes to a file, the save as window locked up. Froze, and the only way to get the machine to respond again, at least Indesign wise was to terminate the Indesign Program. 

I am running update in Creative Cloud Desktop, there does appear to be one for most applications. 

The event logs look clean. There are no noted InDesign Crashes in the application logs. 
I don't see anything about the issue in the System log. 

Where would I go to see why Indesign Cloud is locking up / not responding?

I would think the computer has enough horsepower to perform well. 

 

Manufacturer: LENOVO

Model: 30BX001AUS

Motherboard: LENOVO 1036

Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) W-2123 CPU @ 3.60GHz

Physical Cores: 4

Memory: 15.7 GB

Display Adapter:

NVIDIA Quadro P2000

Monitors:

Generic PnP Monitor (null x null)

BIOS Name: S03KT33A

BIOS Version: S03KT33A

BIOS Release Date: 2019-08-05

Power Rating: 350 Watts

 

Graphics Driver Version: 

Physx processor is the P2000, not the integrated graphics

Driver: 425.66

Standard Driver

Seems like regular 

 

I ran updates on all applications, not sure if they will crash still. We're opening  a file, making a change and then saving a new version. 

What other things can I look at to see why indesign is crashing?

 

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Rishabh_Tiwari
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December 13, 2019

Hi there,

 

Thanks for reaching out. I would request if you can try the following steps and share your observation:

 

  1. Reset Preferences: -
  • 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. 

Disclaimer: 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.  

 

  1. If that doesn't help, try booting the system into Safe Mode (https://support.microsoft.com/en-in/help/12376/windows-10-start-your-pc-in-safe-mode) and check how it works there. It starts your system so that it performs certain checks and prevents third party software/ services from automatically loading or opening. If it works fine in Safe mode, then there is some third party service or application like antivirus, plugins or web extensions which are conflicting with the InDesign.
  2. If that doesn't help either, login to the Hidden Admin account (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfbMs3w-Z3s&t=53s). Check how the application works there. If it works fine there, then it could be related to permission errors. Follow these steps to repair permission errors: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/indesign/kb/preferences-folder-read-only-issue.html
  3. If nothing helps, then we need to troubleshoot this on a live session. Please head here (https://helpx.adobe.com/support.html) and select the chat button in the lower-right corner of the page. We can help faster that way.

 

Regards

Rishabh