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This is a macOS screen shot so will look different if on Windows, but you will have two save locations:
1. Save locally in the location of your choice (I'm showing my desktop)
2. Save on Adobe's cloud drive as a Cloud Document
However, the first time you save you will see a different dialog box, prompting you to save as a Cloud Document (and encouraging it, truthfully) which may be the source of your confusion. And then InDesign remembers how you saved or opened your
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There are no free updates to InDesign. It has been a subscription based application for more than 10 years and prior versions haven't had updates since then.
By @BobLevine
Are there not still free trials for the new versions, though?
If the "On your computer" only came back when doing a "save as", it probably means the document was already saved to the cloud.
This is what you see when doing a save-as with a document already on the cloud:
This is what you should see when you first save the file:
This is a macOS screen shot so will look different if on Windows, but you will have two save locations:
1. Save locally in the location of your choice (I'm showing my desktop)
2. Save on Adobe's cloud drive as a Cloud Document
However, the first time you save you will see a different dialog box, prompting you to save as a Cloud Document (and encouraging it, truthfully) which may be the source of your confusion. And then InDesign remembers how you saved or opened your most recently accessed document and will continue to present you with the same experience until you select otherwise. Choose On Your Computer to get the options shown in my screen shot, above.
~Barb
Hi Anna:
I am sorry you are going through this, and I fully understand your frustration.
To be clear, you should not need to uninstall/reinstall InDesign to get it to change where you save your files, nor are you obligated to use Adobe servers. Encouraged, as I mentioned earlier, but it's an option, not a requirement.
I think Robert's advice to use 2024 for now is a good one (I'm not doing real work on 2025 yet either), but I want to leave you with another option the next time you want to uninstall/reinstall any version of InDesign.
When you uninstall an Adobe application, it leaves remnants behind on your computer. These are preference & cache files and if they're corrupt, they are going to continue to cause issues, even after the reinstall because InDesign still accesses them.
The easiest way to remove them is to open up the InDesign menu > Preferences > General > Reset Preferences on
Quit. Then quit and restart InDesign. This is not the most thorough way but it works in most cases and I wouldn't expect much corruption after a few days on the trial. InDesign will be reset to its defaults and should go back to working normally. The first time you save a file, pay attention to saving on your computer and it will remember that moving forward.
If you install 2024 and it is is working for you, and it should allow you to pick up where you left off on your CS6 book.
When you are tempted to try 2025 again, you might ask your son to work through this post: https://www.rockymountaintraining.com/adobe-indesign-rebuilding-preferences-cache/. If he gets to the bottom, he will have removed all remnants of the previous InDesign installation, just in case that was part of the issue.
If you have additional questions on other topics (your book layout, for example). Come back and see us. It's best to keep each thread to one topic, so just start new post. If you have further questions on this topic, of course, just come back here.
~Barb
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