Indesign Book

[M.E.310814321c2q]

Hello.

Upon opening the most recent version of my InDesign book,
I get the Book Panel window. Choosing a chapter, I try and open
that Chapter. An InDesign window pops up telling me it is opening with
one button to cancel. However, it never opens and if I click
"cancel", cancel never occurs or finishes. It shows a progress wheel that
never ends, completes or stops.

If I "Force Quit" InDesign, then close down Mac OS or restart, that
window is gone. I cannot close InDesign when that window is open. When I try and open a chapter from the Book Panel window, I get the same result.
I do not know what the problem is. Any suggestions from anyone
about this sort of thing?
Each book version has its own dated folder.
The version before this most recent one has all my images and fonts in it but I have already embedded my images, so if I understand this, once embedded, a new version, in a new folder, should not have a problem if images are embedded and remain in the last folder.

But that may not be why I get this "opening" window that never completes.

Thanks

[Abhishek Rao]

Hi @M.E.310814321c2q,

Thanks for sharing the details. Could you let me know which version of InDesign and macOS you're working with? It would also help to know if this happens with all book files or only this specific one. In the meantime, please try resetting InDesign preferences after creating a backup: https://adobe.ly/4747uKY. It would also be useful to test once in a new user profile and again in safe mode to rule out anything specific to your account or a third-party conflict.

New user profile on Mac: https://adobe.ly/4747niw

Safe mode on Mac: https://adobe.ly/4pMEv5J
Please give this a try and let me know your update.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Abhishek

[Peter Spier]

This sounds to me a lot like there is a modal dialog open somewhere off-screen that is waiting for a response, but you also say you've embedded the images, which is really NOT a good practice if you mean they are now embedded in the file rather than linked using the File > Place... command as it swells the file size immensely leading to processing slowdowns as well as potential file corruption. Can you clarify what you mean? How large are these files on disk?