Frames, both image and text, disappear from page but are still in Layers on the page

[Alex H FTL]

Hi everyone! Here's a doses of a problem! I make a rather large document for one of my classes. The document gets appended every semester with new or better written info. Well, when I add pages to the saved document then add or copy paste or whatever new frames onto the page, older frames simply disappear. Here's the rub: The frames still show up in Layers and can be selected but don't SHOW. I've tried playing with the Layer options, I've tried getting older content, pasting in place of the disappeared frames, continuing to work... and then the same or other frames disappear. I literally have to re-write this monster every semester. It's insane. Someone PLEASE tell me this happens to you and that there's a way to make it fix or stop happening! Thanks Alex H

[Laubender]

Turn off GPU support in the preferences.

That's the first thing I would try…

Next thing to check:

Make sure that none of your frames on the spread is set to invisible.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

[Bill Silbert]

Check the new frames that you are pasting in for Text Wrap. Also try selecting the invisible frames and then go through Object>Text Frame Options and click on the "Ignore Text Wrap" option within the dialog window that appears.

[Laubender]

Hi Bill,

could also be a screen redraw error with certain hardware, e.g. Mac M1 machine with a certain GPU or graphic card and only 8GB of available RAM. Memory management in the M1 machine could be an issue with InDesign 2021. Some threads here in the forum point to that as possible cause for "disappearing" text. Frames with "disappearing" images seem to be a new issue…

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

[Laubender]

Hm…

There is a hint at the InDesign-Forum at hilfdirselbst.ch that it could help to trash the preferences.

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https://www.hilfdirselbst.ch/gforum/gforum.cgi?post=581241#581241

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

[Peter Spier]

A screen shot showing the layers panel expanded to show the objects would be useful...