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February 16, 2022
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More M1 / InDesign headaches

  • February 16, 2022
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Having read all the discussions about the problems with Adobe products vis a vis the new M1-chip Mac, I'm just throwing in another experience with it. I cannot explain how it happened, but InDesign started hanging yesterday, and became completely unusable. Then I started having more problems. My Finder started crapping out and needing to be relaunched, other apps started having the same problem.

 

I'd be tempted to put this on a problem with OS Monterey, except I was able to get everything fixed eventually, except for Adobe products (Acrobat also started to become non-functional). I've tried the Cleaner App limited success. I've opened InDesign after the clean-up and a new install, and I can open ID files from the Finder, but the Open command in the app itself doesn't work.

 

I will mention that there was one process or line that was still appearing in the Cleaner window, "Fix Host File," that the Cleaner tool wouldn't clean. It remained there after running the clean-up. I'll say that I didn't do a manual search for residual Adobe files after running the cleaner, but I can't say I have much confidence that doing all that work is going to make a difference if I do the whole clean-up again.

 

I'd offer more details if I didn't have a day job. I'm sorry, this is the best I can do. I don't know whether there's one more answer to this problem that's escaped my notice, or I'm just adding one more anecdote about the misery that is M1 vs Adobe.

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Frans v.d. Geest
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February 16, 2022

We have several M1 Macs, from 8gb Air to 16gb/2Tb MacMini's and iMacs. We have no problems with the latest native M1 version 17.1 at all.... Try a clean install of the system and apps, check for helper apps etc. you use.

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February 17, 2022

Three days ago I would have felt the same way. Everything's been working like a charm for a month. Then something happened. I'm completely mystified. I did one clean-up, but I'm going to do another one with a manual search for any leftover Adobe files. And start her back up. I'm not completely sure it isn't a Mac OS thing that's just manifesting most obviously in InDesign. Because of the Finder crash . . . which no one's mentioned in any of the other threads about this kind of problem.

Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com
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February 24, 2022

Very familiar with open source fonts and software. Unfortunately, that's not an option for us. Going cloud-free . . . man. It's the flip phone of graphic design.


Well, PUBLIC clouds may be flip phones. Clouds like those from Adobe, Google, Amazon, etc. keep tracking everything about your movements and data. And that's not why we want to use them.

 

So why not make your own private cloud?

(And FYI, flip phones are making come back.)

 

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