Workspace reverts to Essential for every new document

Report · Oct 15, 2021

Hi there, I'm having an issue where every document that I open reverts the workspace to Essential. Is there a way to set this to my desired setting and make it stick. I've scoured the forums and tried everything mentioned from clearing caches and preferences to uninstalling and reinstalling. I've set the workspace with no documents open and closed and reopened the app but it just reverts back to Essential when I open a new/existing document.

Please help! This is driving me crazy as I have to do it every time I open a document.

I'm on an iMac (2020) with InDesign 16.4.

Thanks

Report · Apr 08, 2023

Yep, same problem here... has been happening for 3 years at least.

Report · Aug 03, 2023

Same here. Using iD 2023 on mac os 12.67. The problem is even worse for me because it will revert back to essentials while a document is open. This wasn't happening on iD 2022.

The real drag is the time suck especially when you are in and out of a bunch of files.

Workspace reverts to Essential for every new document

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