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julians24124784
Inspiring
January 17, 2020
Question

Save Options grayed out in InDesign

  • January 17, 2020
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I had the same issue as in the post below.

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2648879

 

I mean in general it would be nice if the save function always would be available. But if there are possibilities that this can break you could at least could make a prompt after hitting CMD+S that says it could not save the document. Would have saved me a lot of time today.

 

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Ivan Berka
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January 22, 2024

Just wanted to let all know that it still happens, but I was able to fix it. Or at least I hope so. 

 

After a couple of minutes of despair, instead of stubbornly trying to save the file under the same name (Why would I change it once a had a good reason to name it just the way I wanted it, right?), I cleared the field name completely (in that moment the Save button was still gray), but after typing first letter of a new name the Save button got its color and function back. 

 

It happened to me right now. macOS 14.2 Sonoma, Mac Studio with M2 processor, InDesign 19.1.

    Rishabh_Tiwari
    Community Manager
    Rishabh_TiwariCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    February 1, 2024

    Hi @Ivan Berka,

     

    Thank you for reaching out and sharing the solution that worked for you. In addition to this suggestions, if anyone else is experiencing this issue, please check if InDesign has full disc access. You can do that by going to Apple Menu > System Settings > Privacy & Security > Full Disc Access. Feel free to update the discussion if you need further assistance.

     

    Thanks

    Rishabh

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    Ivan Berka
    Known Participant
    February 1, 2024

    Thanks for the tip, Rishabh. InDesign didn’t have full disk access enabled and now I’ve set it up.

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    zsofiag34858584
    Participant
    April 6, 2021

    Same happaned to my by now two times and on multiple files. The second time for sure it happaned after hitting Undo (Cmd z) multiple times, and it effected all of the Indd files I had open at the time. Save, Save as, Save a Copy were all grayed out. As a workaround Export Idml worked. 
    Running macOS Big Sur Version 11.2.3 and Indd 16.1
    Any solution, bug fixes on the horizon? 

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      Nicm14
      Participating Frequently
      June 29, 2021

      I am having the exact same issue! Has this bug been fixed?

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        Community Expert
        Eugene TysonCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        June 29, 2021

        Have you updated InDesign - is the bug still present?

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        julians24124784Author
        Inspiring
        January 20, 2020

        Cannot work with this anymore... I'm just going to use Indesign 2019 now and use my 2020 Indesign installation to convert documents to idml that I cannot open. – Hopefully 2021 version will be stable enough again to work with it.

        BobLevine
        Community Expert
        BobLevineCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        January 20, 2020

        You can join the prerelease program and get the patch now.

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        julians24124784Author
        Inspiring
        January 20, 2020

        My whole office is complaining about buggs at the moment for new versions of Adobe software (which is kind of understandable though, as macOS is undergoing a lot of changes at the moment) – So don't think pre-releases will make it any better... Maybe it would fix this bugg but probably there would be a couple new ones.

        Rishabh_Tiwari
        Community Manager
        Rishabh_TiwariCommunity Manager
        Community Manager
        January 17, 2020

        Hi Julian,

         

        We're so sorry about the trouble. This is unusual behavior. I would request if you can share a few more details like:

         

        1. The exact version of InDesign and the Operating System.
        2. Are you able to save files right now? Did it happen once only?
        3. Where do you save the file, locally or on any network or shared drive?
        4. Have you checked if this is happening on a specific file or multiple files?

         

        Regards

        Rishabh

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        julians24124784Author
        Inspiring
        January 17, 2020

        Hey Rishabh

         

        Sure I can give you a bit more details to it.


        1:

        Mac Mojave 10.14.6
        Indesign 15.0.1


        I was working on a document. There were some things going funny already (CMD+Z went back about 10 steps and undo would not work). I saving all the time and then at the end I hit CMD+S again bit later I closed (this is where I admit it is partly my fault:) I got a prompt if I wanna save it before closing. I get that all the time, when accidentaly click on a element and move it by 1px or something like this, right after saving. As I exactly knew I just saved it, I foolishly ignored this and clicked "close without saving". 
        As I reopened it I realized that my last 2 hours of work are gone. At first I thought it just me that is going mad and after all I did not hit cmd+s – even if I recalled it doing it multiple times in the last few minutes.

        But then - when rebuilding the whole thing I realized when I hit CMD+S the star next to the file does not go away (doc is not saving) looking at the menu I realized the 'save' + 'save as' are greyed out (same as printscreen of other post mentioned above).
        2: Luckily I was able with Srishti Bali's tip from the other post to at least resque the work I rebuild again by exporting as idml. After restarting OS it seems to work again so far.

        3: Doc and all links were on my local machine

        4: First time this happened (exept few times I accidentally renaming / moving an open file or lost connection to external device I used – which if of course clearly are user-error and never had issues with fixing these (rename, move back...) – but in this case I did nothing like this)

        Only one file so far, which was newly created today (not converted from other version or anything that I think could have corrupded it)

         

        kind regards Julian

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          LaubenderCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          January 18, 2020

          Hi Julian,

          you said: "CMD+Z went back about 10 steps and undo would not work".

          Think this a bug on Mac OS X only and will be fixed with the next bug fix version of InDesign 2020 soon.

           

          Regards,
          Uwe Laubender

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