InDesign CS3 crashes upon launch

Nico,

I've sent you a copy of the .dll, but it seems unlikely at this point that the file itself is bad since you've already replaced it with a working copy from a colleague's machine. It's more likely being triggered by something else.

Can you create a new user and launch InDesign from that new account?

InDesign is very sensitive to badly made or corrupted fonts. You said you haven't installed any fonts recently, but that doesn't mean one of the old ones isn't bad. If you have the original media for all of your fonts, I'd try removing everything except the required system fonts, then seeing if ID will launch. If it does, you know the problem is one of the fonts, and I'd reinstall from the original media, rather than just copying back the old ones. Do it in groups and test in between.

The most common sources of badly made fonts are free font downloads, so I'd be most suspicious of those if you have any and want to try removing just a few fonts first to test.

Peter

Nico,

Does this happen if you rename the recovery data folder? It's possible that ID is trying to recover a corrupt file.
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb407150

Peter

If you contact me off forum at spammercatch at comcast dot net I'll send you the .dll and you can replace the one you have.

Peter

Peter Spier,
I have already done a system restore for about a week back, but I'm having the exact same problem. I have a sneaky suspicion that it might be the objectmodel.dll file, but I'm not sure. Even if I did know I wouldn't know how to fix it. I have not run or installed any fonts or software lately. Is there any other suggestions?
Nico van Wyngaardt

First thing to try is a system restore to a point at least two days ago. Have you run any sort of Updates or installed any new software or fonts in the last couple of days?

I have a problem with my indesign cs3. it worked 2 days ago and now it does not work. When i open indesign it tells me that Adobe indesign cs3 has stopped working. and then this is the information it gives me.

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: InDesign.exe
Application Version: 5.0.4.682
Application Timestamp: 48ca2a28
Fault Module Name: ObjectModel.dll
Fault Module Version: 5.0.0.458
Fault Module Timestamp: 45f900a9
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000114b5
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 0664
Additional Information 2: 5dbc14192a7e001d7a42e7879de66581
Additional Information 3: a23f
Additional Information 4: 6ea2cefce62b7b3fc0b8d3d195841998

I read through the rest of the discussions but none of it worked for me. If anyone Knows how I could approach this problem, please let me know. Thank you.

Nico

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: InDesign.exe
Application Version: 5.0.4.682
Application Timestamp: 48ca2a28
Fault Module Name: ObjectModel.dll
Fault Module Version: 5.0.0.458
Fault Module Timestamp: 45f900a9
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000114b5
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 0664
Additional Information 2: 5dbc14192a7e001d7a42e7879de66581
Additional Information 3: a23f
Additional Information 4: 6ea2cefce62b7b3fc0b8d3d195841998

Do this, it works:

Tatyana B - 11:09am Feb 11, 09 PST (#91 of 99)

Ugh!!
Guys, seriously, after HOURS AND HOURS of messing around and reinstalling quicktime, deleting adobe files, etc.. the solution is really very simple.

Are you ready? Just change your default printer to smth else. I don't know why, but it just doesn't like my laser HP. For some reason out of the whole suite it only affected Illustrator (crashed upon file open/create) and InDesign (crash at "starting up service registry").

Go figure.. errrrrrrr

Like a lot of you I tried everything suggested nothing worked until I tried running Indesign in Safe mode at which time I found out there's a problem with licensing. upon googling the problem someone suggest I start the Flexnet Services manually by going to services.msc.

so far it's working just fine.