InDesign CC crashing on launch on macOS

Try this:

Go to     /Users/your user account/Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesign/

Select folder named Version 10.0.

Press command-i  .

Check permissions and be sure your name's account has permissions to read and write. If your username is not listed, add it with the symbol + and assign read and write permissions.

I hope this works...

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/extension/I was finally able to get this to work, based on Adjal's comment, as immediately above.

In my case, the files that needed updated permissions were at:

Users/USERNAME/Library

Instructions:

1. I clicked on the folder Adobe InDesign, then RIGHT-CLICKED the folder and selected GET INFO.
2. Then I unlocked the folder by clicking the little lock in the bottom right of the GET INFO pop-up box (and typed in admin password).
3. Then I set the permissions for all different types of users to Read & Write.
4. Then I relocked the folder, clicking the little lock in the bottom right of the GET INFO pop-up box again, and I was done.

It works perfectly now, sooooo....  Woo-hoo!  But seriously Adobe, this was a kluge and something that shouldn't be happening.

In the end it wasn’t hard!

One simply has to go to user/library (Mac), and open preferences. Then drag 1 file to the desktop: the folder Adobe InDesign

That was it!!

Cheers

It's simple:

In Mac:

1. Go to Preferences Folder

(HD > Users > Your User > Library > Preferences)

2. Right Click on 'Adobe Indesign' folder

3. Edit Sharing & Permissions to your user (include Read and Write or include your user as necessary)

Indesign runs perfectly!

Just thought I'd share the resolution that worked for me - not sure if it will be of any use on Mac OS, since I'm running Win 8.1 Pro 64-bit.

I ran into this same issue today, after installing new CC applications last night.

After uninstalling my CS6 applications first (leaving preferences etc.), I rebooted and downloaded the lastest CC installer and left it overnight to re-install my various applications.

When I fired up InDesign today, it crashed immediately on launch - I went straight to Google and ended up here.

Before trying any of the convoluted fixes, hacks or workarounds posted here and elsewhere, and before attemtping to use the CC Cleaner Tool, I browsed to the following folders:

C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe

C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Adobe

In both of these folders, was an "InDesign" folder, each containing two more folders - "Version 8.0" and "Version 9.0" - I simply deleted the "InDesign" folder from both AppData\Roaming\Adobe and AppData\Local\Adobe.

I then re-launched the InDesign CC application and was back in business, no crash, all good.

No corrupted fonts to weed out, no dodgy plugins to remove, all things considered, it was a painless fix. I presume this is related to redundant or old CS6 settings/preference files, so if my fix above doesn't apply to a Mac installation, perhaps try removing your old settings/profiles.

Hopefully this will save someone else the time and hassle before heading down a more elaborate resolution path.

[SOLVED] 4 me at least. I had many problems with illustrator cc (Mac version) at startup, it simply crashed. I tried many solutions from the internet -  repair Diskpermission, deleting prefs files and plenty other stuff - no luck!.

Sume suggested to switch to guest user and see if problem persisted, IT DIDENT!

Illy CC opened without a flick....(other users had reproduced this error also).

FINNALY i found the solution, cause i wanted to KEEP my normal user account.

The following is completely safe to do, tho' backup is always a good thing 2 do.

Link to original text/solution:

https://discussions.apple.com/message/22859864#22859864

Copy of the text from the above link.

This isn't astrophysics. Turn all of the user fonts off and then turn them back on group by group until the crashing stops. This is really pretty basic stuff for anyone who would be using this software. Im amazed at the lack of diagnostic skills many of the people have here. This is a highend program that occaisonally has some glitches. For some of you maybe textedit is a better solution.

Sorted mine here took about ten minutes but narrowed it down to a cheapy font called Hybrid. Works fine now no crashes as yet.

Hi

Same issue for me. I'm going back to CS6 until there is a patch. I don't have time to manually check InDesign's compatibility with fonts. I will keep my eye out for a patch.

PC guy here, but I hope this helps anyone who's still having issues with ID CC crashing. I read on another forum that the two little dots above the "e" in the name of the Ithornet font was causing the crash. While I didn't have that particular font on my machince, I thought maybe I had other fonts with special symbols/characters in their names. After carefully looking at all the fonts installed, I had a found one with the "2" superscript, another with the > symbol and one or two with a "." in their name. I rebooted after the deletions and now ID CC works fine.