Edit to paragraph styles keeps crashing indesign

[Mark Ben]

Hi all, please am in a deep issue right now and am trying to avoind going over creating a new document from the start. I am using Indesign 19.1 and I completed a book layout two days ago  which i converted to reflowable epub successfully.  After the epub was reviewed and discovered there was need to make a few changes to the paragraph styles regarding spacing, whenever i open the file and try to edit any major heading paragraph style, once i make the changed on the dialogue box, my indesign hooks like its busy and then finally crash. This does not happen with the non-heading paragraph styles.

This is very very frustrating for me and i can't start recreating a new file, even if i try to, am sure that if i copy to paste from old file to new file, it will also copy along the paragraph styles and that will bring me again into the same mess.

Please, help. This is urgent and frustrating.

[leo.r]

First, try to update to the latest version - InDesign 19.3 - and see if it makes a difference. If not, let us know your operating system version. Also, try to export the doc as IDML then open IDML and see if it solves the problem.

[Eugene Tyson]

The thing is - I know you are changing the Paragraph Style - but the crash is probably not related to that style at all.

I'd start by creating a new document with same page size and margins etc.
and have the old doc open.

In the old doc - go to the pages panel sub menu - and then choose Move Pages - with all the pages selected your old document you can set the target to the New Document

This will insert all your pages to the new document - and in essence rebuild it. 

See if it crashes here.

If it does - you have a test document to work with now.
So you can start deleteing half the content - see if it crashes 

If it still crashes - then delete more content - see if it crashes
then keep halving the document content to see what is crashing it

it doens't take long to track down the page/content that is crashing

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On another note - it might not be that

Here are some presaved thoughts on fixing crashes in order of which to try 

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If a document is not behaving well then try 

File>Export 

Choose IDML

Open the IDML in InDesign
Save the file as a new InDesign file with a new name
See if the issue persists.

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Try resetting your preferences:

Windows: Start InDesign, and then press Shift+Ctrl+Alt. Click Yes when asked if you want to delete preference files.
macOS: While pressing Shift+Option+Command+Control, start InDesign. Click Yes when asked if you want to delete preference files.
A dialog will appear asking to delete the InDesign Preferences, select 'Yes' on this dialog.
Further info and instructions here if needed:
https://helpx.adobe.com/in/indesign/kb/indesign-preferences-support-file-locations.html

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Reinstalling rarely fixes everything - you can do a complete reinstall using the
Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/cc-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html

[HARSHIKA_VERMA]

Hi @Mark Ben,

Hope you're doing well!

We would like to follow up on the issue. Are you able to resolve the issue by following the suggestion shared? Please feel free to update the discussion if you need further assistance from us.

We would be happy to help.

Thanks,

Harshika