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Guides on Masterpage don't show on page

Community Beginner ,
Jul 01, 2020 Jul 01, 2020

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I experience the following: in a file i have worked on for a while (with 400+ pages) from one day to the other all guides that are placed on the masterpage do not show on the pages anymore. Guides are still visible on the masterpage. The "W" key switch shows me only the margin/columns guides i had set up but no additionally placed guides that are on the master.
Also i cannot place content into one of my layers anymore, if i am on the layer and want to open a frame, no frame shows and a message pops up saying "bounding box could not be created". the layer is visible and unlocked. also i have troubles writing pdfs. there is an error message that does not specify what exactly is wrong. i updated indesign to the latest version, restarted the computer in case any weired cached issues were going on, problem persists. any ideas out there how to find out what could be causing this? 

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Community Expert , Jul 01, 2020 Jul 01, 2020

Try resetting preferences.

To do so:

For Macintosh Users: The User Library folder in which InDesign’s preferences 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 press

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Try resetting preferences.

To do so:

For Macintosh Users: The User Library folder in which InDesign’s preferences 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 folder called Preferences and within it find the folder called “Adobe InDesign” and the file called “com.adobe.InDesign.plist” and delete both that folder and that file. When InDesign is next launched it will create new preference files and the program will be restored to its defaults.

For Windows Users: You can try the quick way of resetting on a PC which is to hold down Ctrl + Alt + Shift when launching InDesign and respond affirmatively when asked if you want to reset. There have been some recent reports that the window asking if you want to reset is not popping up but that the prefs are being reset anyway. If this works great but if it doesn’t you may have to manually delete them.

To do so: On Windows 7 and above the preference 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>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\InDesign\<Version #>\<Language>. Make sure that InDesign is closed when you do this. When you relaunch the program it will create new preference files and the program will be at its default settings.

The advantage of manually deleting preference files is that after you’ve reset up the program (make sure that no document window is open) to your liking, you can create copies of your personalized “mint” preference files (make sure that you quit the program before copying them—that finalizes your customization) and use them in the future to replace any corrupt versions you may need to delete.

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Thank you! that might have solved it, at least partially! some guides issues seem to persist, but the layer is accessible again. for sure this did something, thanks again!

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Happy to help.

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in a file i have worked on for a while (with 400+ pages) from one day to the other all guides that are placed on the masterpage do not show on the pages anymore. Guides are still visible on the masterpage.

Save your work, then reapply the master to the body pages that are not displaying the guides. They likely have overrides. If this disrupts more than you bargained for, Edit > Undo or File > Revert.

 

~Barb 

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thank you, for some reason the guides are only showing on new pages added to the file but not when the master is being applied to the ones where they seem missing. they stay missing. 

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