One job replaces another

[Michael5ED9]

A really wierd thing happened this week: So I'm working on a document with several tabbed ones open at the same time (each with a different title and folder) when I suddenly find that almost the entirety of text and images go missing – not deliberately deleted or anything – and that another open document is completely replaced by the current one's text and graphics. It really freaked me out, but thank God, I have multiple back-ups on various drives so was easily retrievable. Has anyone else ever come across this?

Not even sure what I did but what I do know is this has never happened before. All thoughts welcome.

[Derek Cross]

Which version of InDesign and OS?
How much RAM and spare hard disk capacity do you have on your system?

Have you tried resetting the InDesign preferences?

[Michael5ED9]

Thanks for getting back, Derek. ID snd OS Big Sur latest versions. 16Gb RAM and 45Gb HD space. I'll try the Preferences route.

[Derek Cross]

Releasing a bit more spare hard disk may also help.

[Michael5ED9]

Yes, I think you're right. Should really be doing this on my Imac. In the middle of decorating my studio, so it's  in storage.

[Laubender]

Hi Michael,

could be a bug with InDesign 16.2.1 to 16.3.2 for Macs.

We already had something like this in the forum:

Text layer disappears every time I stop typing. Reappears when I start typing again.
akogan0716, Jul 02, 2021

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/text-layer-disappears-every-time-i-stop-typing-reappears-whe...

No solution yet…

Are you using two monitors at the same machine?

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

[Michael5ED9]

Hi Laubender, appreciate you getting back.

I'll have a look at that link. No just a 2019 MacBook Pro.

[Ashutosh_Mishra]

Hi All,

Sorry to hear about your experience. We have launched Adobe InDesign 16.4 recently with multiple bug fixes and performance improvement.

Please update your app to the latest version. Let us know if you still have any issues. We'll be happy to help.

Regards,

Ashutosh