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DaveNagyMKA
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March 10, 2017
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Layers panel not displaying highlighted elements

  • March 10, 2017
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ID CC2017/ Mac OS 10.12.3

I am noticing that when using multiple layers, selecting an element on one layer no longer shows the little colore box indicator on that layer in the layer panel, seems inconsequential, but this means I have no easy way of moving objects to other layers short of copying the object, locking the current layer, selecting the new one, and copying. ID used to do this, and now doesn't. Wat is up?

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Correct answer Bill Silbert

Trashing preferences alone does not usually work for this problem. You will have to trash your InDesign cache files to fix this.

To do so:

With InDesign closed launch a Finder Window in column view and click on your home folder. With the Option Key pressed choose Library from the Finder Go Menu. Within the Library folder find the “Caches” folder. Within the Caches folder find and delete the entire file “Adobe InDesign”. I find that deleting the cache file completely leads to a lasting change.

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Bill Silbert
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Bill SilbertCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
November 30, 2017

Trashing preferences alone does not usually work for this problem. You will have to trash your InDesign cache files to fix this.

To do so:

With InDesign closed launch a Finder Window in column view and click on your home folder. With the Option Key pressed choose Library from the Finder Go Menu. Within the Library folder find the “Caches” folder. Within the Caches folder find and delete the entire file “Adobe InDesign”. I find that deleting the cache file completely leads to a lasting change.

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    bretts21640563
    Known Participant
    August 8, 2018

    Bill,

    I found your Cache solution to be all that was needed to remedy the original post -- much simpler than deleting the preferences.

    I recommend this as a first step toward solution.

    Thanks for sharing!

      Bill Silbert
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      Bill SilbertCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      August 22, 2018

      Happy to help.

      amaarora
      amaarora
      Inspiring
      March 10, 2017

      Hi,

      Can you please let me know about the following:

      1. Is this issue reproducible with all documents or only with a specific one?

      2. What is the workflow or steps that you follow that result in this bug

      3. Also, what happens after deleting your preferences and cache. Does it solve your issue?

      You can mail me your document in which you are facing the issue along with a small video showing the steps you follo to reproduce the issue at amaarora@adobe.com

      -Aman

      InDesign Team

      amaarora@adobe.com

      BobLevine
      Community Expert
      BobLevineCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      March 10, 2017

      This seems to be a rather common issue that is corrected by trashing preferences.

      https://forums.adobe.com/thread/526990

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