Acrobat DC freezing when bulk form field name change in Mac

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July 10, 2025
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For a few weeks now (and this continued after installing the latest update and trying various fixes like unistalling and reinistalling and changing security preferences, every pdf that I try to bulk change nested form field names immediately freezes once I press enter to change the names. For example, as SS shows, if I try to change Bef at the top to something else, like Pet, the second I press enter acrobat freezes and crashes. Driving me nuts., I cannot find a fix, please help!

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@AmandaSesq518 I have a feeling that levels or number and depth of your nested fields are a primary suspect. Acrobat might struggle to process the renaming operation across a large, complex hierarchy, especially when it needs to update all child fields. I would try and simplied it and don't have so many levels

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THanks for your reply. I initially created these forms over a decade ago. I have been making bulk form field changes for years. once in a while I have had crash problems, but never like this. The snippet I shared is part of a 30 page pdf with hundreds of form fields. I extracted one page to change a smaller batch at a time and even that didnt work =/

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AmandaSesq518Author

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Here is a recent crash report. Mac os Sequoia 15.6, adobe version 2025.001.20566 (and it just crashed a few seconds after reopening it without me even opening a file). How I can send some of the files that are crashing without sharing publicly?

Screen recording of excat reproduction of the crash in one of the files attached.

Screen_Recording_2025-07-10_at_11-35-24 AM.zip

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