Indesign Won't Open Unless I Uninstall and Reinstall on Mac

Hi @w. ramsbottom ,

what's your exact version of InDesign, what's the exact version of your operating system?

What we have seen here in this forum and what I see from a colleague who is using macOS 13 with InDesign 2023 version 18.0, the solution could be to update your system version to 13.5.1 or to go back to InDesign 18.4 or 18.3.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

I have the same issue

When InDesign begins to behave erratically, consider rebuilding your cache and preferences. Doing so will solve most of these issues, and the link below explains both the keyboard technique (which works most of the time) as well as the more thorough approach to deleting (or renaming) your cache and preferences, which tends to resolve the more stubborn issues not rectified by the keyboard approach.

See: https://www.rockymountaintraining.com/adobe-indesign-rebuilding-preferences-cache/

~Barb

It happens also to me...it's so stressful and I still can't find a solution.