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Persistent Error in Adobe InDesign: ‘There Was an Error Updating the Artifact

Explorer ,
Jan 23, 2024 Jan 23, 2024

When I go to update a review link in InDesign, I keep getting this error message "there was an error updating the artifact". After that, the link does not work for most people. I am signed in to Adobe. Everything is up-to-date.... But this issue still persists. Can Adobe please fix this issue? It's emarassing when I go to send the review link to my leaders and they just get an error message when they try opening it.

Screenshot 2024-01-23 at 10.47.32 AM.png

 

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Contributor , May 03, 2024 May 03, 2024

I would like to add that my clients usually do not experience any problems opening the file with the link (even if I get the error message), but sometimes they do. Refreshing the page does do the trick in most cases if that happens. Now usually they are 'slow' in reacting on my update messages, so it is possible that they only experience problems opening the file when they react right away. I will keep an eye on that now, to be sure. So I support the idea of a lag/delay in the update process.

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Adobe Employee , May 08, 2024 May 08, 2024

Hi All,

 

Thanks for your patience. The product team has tried multiple files and affected files shared by users. The issue is not reproducible for us even after multiple tries. It seems like an intermittent issue; it may work on the next or subsequent tries. Would you all mind trying "update content" once more to check if it works?

Also, the screen recording shared above by @Chris Tammar shows some unmapped comments. That shouldn't have happened. It seems an erroneous scenario led to unmapped co

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Adobe Employee , May 19, 2025 May 19, 2025

Hello everyone,

 

Thanks for sharing the details. I've escalated this to the product team, and they are currently investigating the issue. I'll keep you posted and share an update as soon as I hear back.

 

Thanks for your patience. 

Abhishek

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Adobe Employee , Oct 14, 2025 Oct 14, 2025

Hi everyone,

 

Thanks for your continued patience while we looked into this. I checked with the product team, and they've tested multiple files (including those shared by some of you) but weren’t able to reproduce the issue on their end, even after several tries. It seems to be intermittent, and in many cases, retrying the Update Content option works successfully on subsequent attempts.

The team also noticed in one of the shared recordings that unmapped comments were present, which might be cont

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Adobe Employee , Nov 06, 2025 Nov 06, 2025

Hello everyone,

Thanks for your patience. The product team has confirmed that the problem with Share for Review links not working has been resolved. Kindly refresh your links and let us know how it goes.

Thanks,
Anubhav

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New Here ,
Nov 19, 2025 Nov 19, 2025

I am having the same problem here from InDesign. I updated to the latest version too.Screenshot 2025-11-19 at 2.50.52 PM.png

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New Here ,
8 hours ago 8 hours ago

Coming back to share something interesting after a few years. Seems my PC will update the file, even when it says it can't. My Mac, however, says it cannot update the artifact, and does not update the file. *le sigh* I'm tired.

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Contributor ,
6 hours ago 6 hours ago

@user8773624 that is very interesting indeed! I work only on a pc these days and it always updates the file (error or not). This could explain why some users report that the online file does not update while others don't have that problem.
Adobe, @Abhishek Rao, here's an important clue!

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New Here ,
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I have also been having this issue with one of my files for the past 2 days. I've tried many of the things suggested here, am using 21.01.1 Indesign and macOS Tahoe 26.1. For one of my cloud files, after I updated the review link it no longer opened and crashed Indesign every time I tried. I was able to duplicate the file and continue working in that version, but every time I try to update the link it has the 'There was an error updating the artifact' error message, and the updates don't push through. The only thing that seems to work is deleting the link and generating a new one, but that is extremely disruptive for our process (and embarrasing). I have tried packaging and using the indml which I then convert to indd, and that also ends up having the same issue.

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