Combining Large Quantities of Files

Question

I frequently have large numbers of documents that I combine into one document to be ready for a board meeting. I average between 50 and 70 documents (Word, pdf, Excel, etc.). The documents are in various places -- some on a network drive and some on my One Drive. Since the documents have to go in a certain order, I spend a large chunk of time putting these in order before they're combined. Almost every time I do this, Adobe crashes. I have recently gotten a new laptop with a better processor to see if that would help and it's negligible. At this point, I'm making parts with 15-20 documents and then combining the parts just so that I'm getting at least some of the work saved.

Is this really the only recourse? I would say that I've only really struggled with this over the last 5 years. Prior to this (I've done it for 11+ years), I don't recall that it was an almost-every-time occurrence. Every time I ask my office IT team for assistance, they are clueless. I haven't seen this as a common problem in the community, but know there has to be others out there putting together large quatities of documents.

I have Adobe Acrobat Pro Version 2025.001.20435, 64-bit.

try67 · Answer

I would recommend converting the non-PDF files to PDFs first, and then try to combine them.

If the latter process still fails you could use a stand-alone utility to combine them, which can be more robust than Acrobat.

I can develop such a tool for you, for a fee. If you're interested, feel free to contact me privately by clicking my user-name and then on the blue "Message" button.

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