Crash when re-linking files

[peterb46644327]

I am up to date on my software, but am still experiencing a spinning wheel and crash of the application when I try to re-link a single file in InDesign, and am unable to select an entire folder to re-link. Advice would be greatly appreciated!

[Steve Werner]

You need to tell us exactly what version of InDesign and what operating system you're running.

[peterb46644327]

Of course. Sorry about that.

Mac OS 10.13.6

Indesign CC 13.1

[Steve Werner · Accepted solution]

Is this in one file or multiple files?

If one file, the file could be corrupted and you could save it as IDML and reopen:

Clean corrupt files by exporting to .IDML or .INX

If more than one file, you could try restoring InDesign preferences:

Set preferences in Adobe InDesign

[peterb46644327]

Thank you. I restored InDesign preferences and now I am able to re-link files one by one (it takes about 2 minutes for each re-link!), but still can't re-link groups of images from the same folder. Any suggestions for this issue would be greatly appreciated.

[Srishti Bali]

Hi Peter,

Sorry to hear about this. Could you please confirm where the files are saved(Network Drive/ System HDD/ Shared Folder on System /External HDD)?

Regards,

Srishti

[OliverHevvy]

Windows 10, InDesign 15.1.1 x64. When I run spell-check on an InDesign file that contains a linked InDesign file, it opens the linked file, then freezes. It has been doing this consistently for the past several versions - more than a year I think. I trashed my Preferences file and it still does it. What's the fix?