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cursor won't load place text

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
May 27, 2023
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I can't get the cursor to load on placed text. I'm placing a docx file, and I've done this a hundred times with no problem. What could possibly keep the cursor from loading?

ID CC, Windows 10.

Barb Binder

Community Expert

FWIW, I have used Malwarebytes on my Macs for years. No issues.

I also regularly reset my preferences with no issues. You can back up the important preset files (scripts, keyboard shortcuts, workspaces, etc) prior to resetting preferences so it might take five minutes to recreate your actual preferences.

-~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

Kelli Jae BaeliAuthor

Inspiring

I think that's my only choice now...I'll try to backup my presets first, as you suggest.
And Malwarebytes was the one that locked all my files and wreaked havoc on my computer, so I'm not keen on having any of those. I did better, really, with just letting the native Windows Defender take care of it. Will be using that now. Again. Jeez.

UPDATE: Creative Cloud will not let me install an older version, nor uninstall the current one. When i click to install/uninstall, nothing happens.
I rebooted my computer, and then tried to PLACE the text again, and watched the blue circle grind for a while. I clicked that blue circle, and it gave me background info...(see screenshot) said it was loading a font: Adobe Kis (which is the font I use for body text--it's legally used through my subscription). But when it finally finishes, the background task is blank (see screenshot2). And nothing pastes, same issue.

UPDATE: finally found the ID2024 version in start menu of Windows, so opened that and tried again, and text won't import/paste/place in that version either. What the hell is going on? Is Niburu in retrograde?

UPDATE: I uninstalled both versions of ID, rebooted my computer, tried to place text again with same issue. I opened the docx file in WPS and there was that message again that the file was locked by another program. So now, I assume this is the issue. But will have to try to figure out WHICH program has locked the file. (see screenshot)

Downloaded Lockhunter, put filename in it and it said nothing was locking the file. grrr. (see screenshot)

Peter Spier

Community Expert

I see the file path is to drive W:\ which implies some network storage device. There are a lot of reported problems, particularly in newer versions, with trying to work directly off remote storage. Waht happens if you copy the file to your local hard drive and try to place it from there?

And for what it's worth, I've also been using MalwareBytes for about 30 years with no isuues even remotely similar to what you are reporting.

Kelli Jae BaeliAuthor

Inspiring

Weirdly, this has happened again. My new malware program was IO Bit, and so i figured it was the same problem with locked files. I deleted the IO Bit malware program, and tried all this again, and the same problem. The cursor will not load to autoflow text. I have no idea where to go from here.

Kelli Jae BaeliAuthor

Inspiring

I uninstalled Advanced System Care (along with their malware program) and cleaned the registry of all remnants. I tried again with the same result: the cursor will not load.

Kelli Jae BaeliAuthor

Inspiring

What did you want a video of?
And no, I haven't tried IDMLing... at what point in the process would you suggest I do that? An IDML file cannot be PLACED. Can you be more specific? Thanks

By @Kelli Jae Baeli

Video might show us something.

IDMLing is used to fix corrupted INDD files - export as IDML, open, save with a new name - do not overwrite your original file.

to be clear, you mean ::
export the digital version as IDML,
open it in ID, save it with new name,
then export that as epub,
load the epub in calibre,
convert again to docx,
and then PLACE that new docx back into a new file in ID?
That would have to be my process, as I am PLACING a digital version into a new document to format as a paperback version. I don't yet HAVE a paperback version, as that's what I'm trying to create.
I tried that, and got this error in Calibre:

calibre, version 7.24.0
ERROR: Error while saving: Failed to save any books to disk, click "Show details" for more information

Failed to save the DOCX format of: Also Known as Sleepy Cat Peak by Kelli Jae Baeli to disk, with error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre\gui2\save.py", line 289, in write_book
File "calibre\gui2\save.py", line 310, in write_fmt
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'W:\\.FEMFIC Press\\.NOVELS & NOVELLAS\\AKA5 SleepyCatPeak\\DIGITAL\\Also Known as Sleepy Cat Peak - Kelli Jae Baeli.docx'

Kelli Jae BaeliAuthor

Inspiring

UPDATE: I tried this with an .rtf version of the file, the cursor loaded, but the text frames were not automatically created as usual. And there is no overset text indicated by a red X. When i click on that spot anyway, the cursor loads again, but shift-clicking onto the second page has the same result. It's like autoflow is turned off.

Kelli Jae BaeliAuthor

Inspiring

okay, in case this helps anyone else, i got everything to work. Here are my notes:
Malwarebytes was apparently locking the file. (I was so mad, I got rid of it, cancelled my subscription--no one should be able to lock you out of your own files).

i did go to properties for my publishing folder and did the right click TAKE OWNERSHIP for all of them. Don't know if that mattered.

When i opened the docx file in WPS writer, error message said the file was locked by another program.
These files are compiled from Scrivener. I tried recompiling in both formats, with the same result--file was locked in WPS, and also couldn't load the cursor and place in ID.

I pulled up scrivener file for a different book to test it, compiled to docx, created fresh ebook file from default, and placed, and it worked.

So, i figured there was some sort of corruption in the file I had trouble with.
I don't know what was MB and what was maybe a corrupt scriv file. (it was fine a few days ago).

After all that, I finally decided to find the epub file (which was the one used for previous publishing), loaded the epub version into calibre, converted it to docx, and when i placed that in indesign it worked, and also did the autoflow.

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