Swatch and Stroke windows close while using slider or drop down menus

[artfile24680]

Hello, lately I've noticed that when I have my swatch window pulled out and try to adjust a tint with the slider, as soon as I click on the slider to slide it the window disappears.  I've been having to pull the swatch window out from the tool bar in order to be able to use the slider on tints.

The same thing happens for the stroke window when trying to select a point size from the drop down menu.  I can only select with the drop down menu if I pull the stroke window out of my tools first.

This is annoying because what is the point of have the shortcut tool bar if I have to pull the windows out of it in order for them to work properply.  It's been this way for a few weeks and I thought doing an update might help, but no luck.  I use these things all day long, so the bug is getting very annoying.

What might fix this?

[Bill Silbert · Accepted solution]

Problems with panel operation can often be fixed by deleting InDesign's cache files (this is not the same as deleting preferences).

To do so:

For Macintosh Users: The User Library folder in which InDesign’s cache files are stored is hidden by default on most Macintoshes. To access it make sure that InDesign is closed and click on the desktop to launch a Finder Window (Command-N). With this window in column view follow the path User>Home folder (it’s the folder with an icon that looks like a house—it may have the user’s name rather than “Home”) and click on the Home folder. With the Option Key pressed choose Library from the Finder Go Menu. “Library” will now appear within the Home folder. Within the Library folder find the “Caches” folder. Within the Caches folder find and delete the entire folder “Adobe InDesign”. I find that deleting the InDesign cache folder completely leads to a lasting change.

For Windows Users: On Windows 7 and above the caches files are hidden. To find them go to the Control Panel and open Folder Options and then click the View tab. Then select “Show hidden files and folders” or “Show hidden files, folders or drive options” in Advanced Settings. Then delete (or rename) the folder at the end of this path: C:\Users\[User Name]\AppData\Local\Adobe\InDesign\Version [#]\<Language>\Cache.

[HARSHIKA_VERMA]

Hi @artfile24680,

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Thanks,

Harshika

[ldhanson]

Hi, I tried deleting InDesign's Cache folder and it still did not fix the problem. The problem is when the swatches panel is docked, and I click on it to open, and then I go to adjust the tint slider, the whole panel colapses shut giving me no access to the swatches panel. To work around this I have to un-dock the panel and then I can use the tint slider as intended. But because of lack of space, I like to keep the panels docked so this workaround is inconvenient. I'm have InDesign 19.1, running on MacBook Pro Ventura 13.4

[Steve Werner]

Try updating your Ventura version - I believe the latest update is 13.6. It might have fixed this issue.