InDesign file crashes when working a specific page of the file

[David J22852166hjmk]

Hello

I have an indesign file, where one page has something wrong with it.  Whenever I work on that page my file crashes. When I delete the page, the text is flowed, and when i get to that area in text it crashes again. I saced over it, saved as an idml file, and so many other things. Any suggestions to how to fix this file? I cant start from scratch since its a 60 page document..

Thank you

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[Willi Adelberger]

Create a new file with the same document setup. Open this file and the other. Go to the old file, layout > pages > move pages

all pages from the old document to the start of the new document.

[David J22852166hjmk]

Is that going to help with the bug?

thank you for your suggestion!

[Eugene Tyson]

Only one way to find out. 

Try it. 

[David J22852166hjmk]

true, thank you!

[Peter Spier]

You can also try exporting the file to .idml and openthat then save as a new .indd with a new name.

[David J22852166hjmk]

Thank you, I tried that and it didnt work so well, but i can try again

thank you for your suggestion!

[Manan Joshi]

If the export to IDML also did not work for you, and the crash happens at a particular section in the text then we could also investigate the possibility of a corrupt font. What if you copy this problematic text onto a new document?

-Manan

[David J22852166hjmk]

Would it get solved with changing the font? Would that help with the corrupt text? 

Thank you

[Eugene Tyson]

Did you try it?

[HARSHIKA_VERMA]

Hi @David J22852166hjmk,

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[David J22852166hjmk]

Currently I cant even open the file. It completly freezes up my indesign... 

[Peter Spier]

You can try Martin Fisher's blind-open script. One place you'll find it is Blind open and IDML-export 

[David J22852166hjmk]

what does this do?

[Eugene Tyson]

It blind opens it and saves it as an idml.

[Peter Spier]

it can sometimes be successful to open the file without interacting with the UI when regular methods fail. It looks like you've been through .idml previously, so it may not help, but always worth a try.

Other things worth trying are open as a copy and open on a different computer.