Pasting Text Box Turns Into Image

Mac Mojave 10.14.X (latest version) - No recent changes

iMac (maxed out for 2013) 24gb RAM / 3.5 ghz I7 - No recent changes

InDesign CC 2019 (with whatever updates it self loads)

Issue 1: I am moving elements (text boxes and images) from one ID file to another. First noticed when I pick 2 elements (image and text box) from document A and copy into document B, the text box and image will become 1 object. Objects cannot be separated. Effects (drop shadow, etc.) are still in place but are not editable. Further attempts continue to frustrate as even pasting into another page on doc. A will have the same behavior. Pasting onto the same page however, does not.

Issue 2: Same issue but results are not changed even when pasting ONLY a text box. Text becomes an image and not affected by attempts to edit as a text object.

Attempts at self-correcting: I've read up today on this problem that has been asked in this forum previously. I've attempted to delete the Saved Data file in Preferences and Cache but unless I am failing at that, the behavior of InDesign isn't changing for me. I've suffered through this before but I do not recall what I did to rectify previously. It happens rarely but when it does it is devastating to my workflow.

So this morning, after an unsuccessful attempt at deleting the preference and cache files, I restarted the iMac. Immediately ran my monthly Onyx maintenance and started up again with no changes in response from InDesign. Everything else runs normally. Ps and Ai have never had this issue. At the end of an especially heavy workweek it may slow down overall but a quick reboot has always solved that. InDesign is the only program I see this behavior from.

• I have the same version of Adobe CC operating on my 2017 MBP (16gb RAM / 3.1 ghz I7) but I do NOT get the issue on this machine.

• I know, I know, just do the work on my laptop, but that is not my point. I can go months without this happening and its not an ancient machine gasping for RAM.

Expected outcome: I know there are several threads with similar issues as this on this forum. Maybe we can gather the last, best procedure and document it here in this one. Some of those threads are many years old and run many pages long with non-helpful or dated replies.

Message was edited by: John Neumann Additional info added / edit autofill