Which ID version is most stable?

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October 27, 2023
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I have updated my ID to the latest and opened my document (which is large, >200 US letter pages with >340 diagrams together with captions in a box). I had to move these images-with-captions around and after a few moves, ID started to use 100%CPU (and when I leave it alone it stops using 100% CPU after a few minutes, but it is completely unresponsive, as soon as I try to click on it again it goes back to 100% CPU and remains unresponsive). Basically, this is unusable.

I have had my adventures with the reliability of ID over the years and stupidly enough I cleaned up my system (macOS Monterey, latest) and removed all old versions. But if this is how I must work I can better give up.

So, what is the most stable version from the ast few years?

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Steve Werner

Community Expert

It's difficult to discuss InDesign's speed and stability unless you tell more about your system. Please give us more information: Please tell us what operating system (exactly) you're running. How much RAM installed? Where is the file stored, and how fast are the drives?

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Gerben WierdaAuthor

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This could be relevant, except that I had no troubles with a previous version of about 6 months ago (when I had to pause my work), but it is a 3.7GHz 6-core i5 iMac running Monterey 12.7. RAM (16GB) is not exhausted and everything is on an internal SSD. It's with almost perfect certainty ID, not the system.

Steve Werner

Community Expert

Another issue when doing a major update in InDesign:

Poor stability or slowness can be improved by restoring your InDesign preferences and caches. This may be worth a try. Here's how:

https://www.rockymountaintraining.com/adobe-indesign-rebuilding-preferences-cache/

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Manan Joshi

Community Expert

Hi @Gerben Wierda,

Stability is a very subjective term, the experiences would depend upon the kind of work one does. You can try rolling back one version and see if that works for you or not. Also, you could check if the issue is with the document itself. Try working with a similiarly sized document and see if it works fine. Try exporting the document to IDML and then resaving it back as INDD, this would clean up the muck that might have accumulated over time and might help

-Manan

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