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January 27, 2025
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InDesign crashes when I duplicate a page

  • January 27, 2025
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When I duplicate a page InDesign crashes. It's not everytime but it seems to be most times. Think it may have something to do with have Grouped text/image selected and then duplicating. Not sure. New bug as of most recent update.

 

Please fix.

Every new Adobe update either breaks Photoshop or InDesign recently. 

Incredibly hard to do my job.

    9 replies

    Abhishek Rao
    Community Manager
    Abhishek RaoCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    February 26, 2025

    Hi everyone,

     

    Thanks for your patience on this. I checked with the product team, and they confirmed that a bug was already logged for this issue, and the fix is included in the latest InDesign PR build.

    The team recommends testing the PR build to validate the fix. You can access it by following the steps in this blog:
    How to Join the Creative Cloud Prerelease Program

    Please give it a try and let us know if the issue is resolved for you.

     

    Looking forward to your feedback! 

     

    ^

    Abhishek

     

    FoekeZ
    FoekeZ
    Participant
    February 21, 2025

    Same here after the latest update. Has nothing to do with the document. Happens with all documents and new documents too.

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    L21929179y69sAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    February 12, 2025

    This bug persists. Would love if it was fixed soon.

    Yes I can reset preferences and save as idml and avoid duplicating pages until this is fixed.

    I am very familar with InDesign bug workarounds. 

     

    But it is really awful that such a simple function crashes the whole program and that it's left unaddressed for weeks.

    Put simply, InDesign used to work better. Whatever novel new features are being added at the expense of basic functioning of the program cannot be worth it.

      leo.r
      Community Expert
      leo.rCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      February 12, 2025
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      This bug persists. Would love if it was fixed soon.

      By @L21929179y69s

       

      If you're using InDesign 20.1, try to revert to an earlier InDesign 2025 version (you can do so from the Creative Cloud app; find InDesign, then Other Versions menu).

       

      Quite a few users reported a similar issue in InDesign 20.1 (in particular, when copying objects and pages by using the Option key).

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      Philipp26095628bgfs
      Participant
      February 5, 2025

      Same Problem here. I found out, this only happens, when an object or text frame is selected and I try to duplicate a page.

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        Backyardigan
        Participant
        February 3, 2025

        Dragging spread to "Create New Page" button at bottom of Pages window (to duplicate spread) crashing consistently.

         

        Right click menu "Duplicate Spread" works fine.

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          Backyardigan
          Participant
          February 3, 2025

          ID 20.1

            Robert at ID-Tasker
            Robert at ID-Tasker
            Legend
            February 3, 2025

            There are A LOT of posts with complains about crashing after the last update...

             

            Robert at ID-Tasker
            Robert at ID-Tasker
            Legend
            January 31, 2025

            @L21929179y69s, @Philipp5DB1

             

            Are you using InDesign 19.5.2 - recent update?

             

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            Philipp5DB1
            Participant
            January 31, 2025

            I Have the same problem. happens with every file. even new ones with only one page.

              Robert at ID-Tasker
              Robert at ID-Tasker
              Legend
              January 27, 2025

              @L21929179y69s 

               

              Try IDMLing - export as IDML, open, save with a new name - do not overwrite your original file.

               

              There is a very quick and easy solution for the problem with updates - turn OFF auto updates and don't update when a new major version is available - wait few months / minor updates, till it get stable.

               

              And you can always have more than one major version installed - do not remove / uninstall previous version when installing a new one.

               

              Willi Adelberger
              Community Expert
              Willi AdelbergerCommunity Expert
              Community Expert
              January 27, 2025

              Dies it happen with every file or with a specific one only?

              Did you try the IDML repair route?

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