InDesign CS3 crashes upon launch

Fixed it - I renamed the file SING.apln. Choose the SING.apln from \Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CS2\Plug-Ins\Text. I renamed it to SINGold.apln and it opened just fine.

I'm getting the same thing, all the fixes listed here on this problem don't work for me. Anyone have any other ideas?

I had the same problem in so far as Indesign would go no further than Starting up service registry. In my case Quicktime was the problem as for some reason it was installed twice. Once removed and rebooted Indesign launched fine.
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Hey I just had the same issue

I Have a Lexmark X1155 Multifuncional, and in my case , the option for configuration for the printer was disabled, so what i did to resolve it was the following :

Click the Start button, and then click Run.
The Run window appears.
Type services.msc, and then click OK.
Locate Print Spooler in the list of services, right-click the service, and then left-click start.
Locate Lexbce Server in the list of services, right-click the service, and then left-click start

After Following these steps , should work
Just in case you have a problem :
Right-click "Print Spooler" and select "Properties".
Click on the "Recovery" tab and change all 3 drop-down boxes to "Restart The Service".
Make sure the 2 text boxes underneath say "1" in them.
Click Ok until you are back at the Services window, close it , perform the same for Lexbce Server and RPC services as well. Then restart RPC services, then Lexbce Server and last step is to restart the Print Spooler service. Print a test page and check for it.

I Hope this help someone, cause i was having such a bad time, trying to figure out what was wrong.

SOLVED. It is a question (on Mac) of user permissions. The adobe folders on the library of the user home should have owner read and write permissions on top of other users. I deleted an unknown user of all the Library Folder and everything is working now.

Thanks Everybody.

Indeed. I have another account on the same computer and Indesign starts ok. The plug-ins in the Indesign folder are the same. So I do not think that the issue has to do with them.

Thanks anyway

Emilio,

I have not been following this thread (nor am I inclined to read through 67 posts to see what has been discussed) but I can give you something to try.

I had a problem with ID crashing upon launch as well. It had to do with conflicting plug-ins (looks like the windows problem in #67 was also plug-in related). Rather than give a whack of history try this and see what happens.

Create a new user account and launch ID from there. If you get a message about conflicting plug-ins, don't fix it, ignore it. See if ID will launch.

FWIW: I recently posted an opinion that the Mac and Windows ID forums should be merged. Emilio's post seems to support that.

I am having the same issue with Indesign 5.03 for Mac after installing the upgrade of the system (now 10.5.4) and the upgrade of Indesign from 5.02 to 5.03. I have tried all the trick here suggested and have had no results! The application still crashes.

I solved the problem using Correio's solution above, I just moved the media import filter up to the plugin directory.

correio merda - 11:29am May 18, 08 PST (#52 of 66)

I solved this problem on InDesign CS3 by moving the file "Media Import Filter.apln", which is in "C:\Arquivos de programas\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CS3\Plug-Ins\Filters", to another folder. This folder can't be into "Filter" folder. This file seems to have something to do with Quicktime. I don't know which features this action could affect so, perhaps, the right solution was re-installing Quicktime or something like that.