Thanks for responding. I rarely have a use for something like gridify, so I forget the shortcuts for it, and it's just easier to do it the old way than refresh my memory on the rare occasion it would be useful. My current application thea pushed my annoyance to the level where I came to the forum is a 2-page list of 60 or so DVDs. I can't load the cursor with all of them at once, so I'm not sure gridify would be helpful.   However, this is just simple image placing that I'm having problems with. I've been using InDesign since version 1, so I'm no nube here. It's only recently that this has been happening to me. This is just a simple drag and drop a bunch of images into InDesign (or even using the place command), and then I drag the cursor to place the image at the size I want it, and the image disappears (whether I'm doing one or many). Sometimes a portion of the image shows, but it appears to me that the drag is sizing the frame and not the importing picture, and the image is somewhere else offset from the frame and at its full non-scaled size (as if I had done a copy and paste into where only a corner of the image copied overlapped the frame I'm pasting into). I have to select the frames and use the fit commands to get the images to show, so I don't think it's a redraw issue. It's the weirdest behavior, and in all the years I've used InDesign, I've never had this happen. I can't even imagine why anyone would want it to work that way, which is why I'm thinking it's a bug and not a feature. Though some of the things that Adobe rolls out as features sometimes bewilders me.   I do know they are rolling out a 15.0.3, which is yet to be avaible in the US, and I'm having serious performance issues with the current release, so I may just have to wait and see if this new update fixes this too. ... View more

I came here wondering if anyone else as seeing performance issues with InDesign. It is extremely frustrating. I'm on Windows 10 and ever since the last ID update, I've been struggling to work. I tend to work with a lot of files open and the performance issues seem to escalate the more files you open. I've discovered that if I force quit and reopen ID, it tends to behave better on the recovered files. However, every file I open behaves as if I'm trying to edit text in a spanned/split multi-page story environment. You click on something, and it can take minutes for the cursor to quit spinning and give you the selection. Trying to click into a text box is a nightmare. Copying and pasting from one document into another is nearly impossible. Add to this that I'm being forced to work from home, so I'm having to work over VPN to a server. I could understand those files being slow, but even the ones I copy to my computer before opening act as if I'm accessing a server in China through dial up. This is maddening.  ... View more

Happily, it appears that Adobe has fixed this bug. The fix will be in the next update to InDesign. I'm currently running the beta build release with the fix, and the problem is solved.  ... View more

Here are some samples. One is copied from the original file that I showed snap shots of in my first post (I have removed the icon that had the negative baseline just to remove it as a suspect). I had deleted the other two samples that I showed above without saving them but was able to recreate the problem from scratch in a new file, which I have also included. I have also included a PNG of the created file to show what it looked like on my computer in case the problem doesn't exhibit on your computer. I have opened this on a coworkers computer (a Mac) and was able to reproduce the same behavior, so I'm nearly positive you'll see the problem. We have moved as a team back to InDesign 2019 as this bug will cause work flow probems for us until it is fixed. The selection and column flow work fine in the older version.  Dropbox sample archive  ... View more

No negative baseline spacing used. The bug seems to be generated when paragraph spacing is added before and/or after split paragraphs of 3 or fewer paragraphs. It doesn't happen when there are 4 or more paragraphs in the split list. It doesn't happen if there is NO space before or after set in the paragraphs before and after the list. It doesn't happen when there is NO buffer space added before and after the list in the split paragraph settings. I've narrowed it down to that much context.   I rarely adjust baseline in paragraphs. The Icon at that beginning of the title lines have some negative baseline for that single character (character style), but that character style is applied only to that character via an embedded style, and the bug happens without that style being present as shown in my third post above.  ... View more

Further update as I try to track down the culprit of this bug. Here are the steps to reproduce it: Create a list with three styles, two regular list styles, one that is splitting column 2. Then create several lists that force the split column to flow items to the two columns. Then add space after to the paragraph before the split column list. The instant result is that a list with 3 or fewer items stops flowing correctly and the first line becomes nearly impossible to select with the mouse.                    ... View more

I have possibly narrowed down the problem to the sections of text where the style is using split paragraph with 3 or fewer items. The lists will not flow correctly between the columns without adding a column break, and I can't seem to select the first line of items on the problem lists. Maybe the bug is with the span/split paragraphs feature?   ... View more

I can confirm that my problem appears to be fixed. Node.exe is no longer hogging my CPU. Thanks! ... View more

I was having some really serious hesitations on my computer and opened Resource Monitor to find that my CPU was spiking because of Node.exe. I've closed everything one at a time and while overall CPU use went down the spiking kept going. I rebooted and the Node.exe reappeared and kept spiking the CPU. I then realized that when I closed everything, I didn't close Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop or Dropbox, so I closed both of those and the spiking stopped and Node.exe disappeared. I restarted Dropbox and everything was fine. Restarted the CC Desktop and Node.exe reappeared and started spiking the CPU again. Something is very wrong with the Desktop app. Please fix urgently! Windows 10 fully updated. ... View more

I'm another user that must run an older version of ID due to a third-party plugin that is vital to one of my workflows that has not been updated since InDesign 2015. Am I breaking some kind of licensing agreement because I HAVE to have the older version on my computer? I've contacted the plugin developer multiple times about getting the plugin updated to current versions since it is a hassle to have to work in two versions of ID that are getting further and further apart, but he has not been able to do that. I need the plugin for at least another year and half. Plugin in question is In-Tools Side Heads. ... View more

This issue has either not been fixed or it has resurfaced. I'm on the latest updated InDesign, and I'm experiencing this variable issue in my footers again. I tried exporting to IDML and rebuilding the culprit file, and it still displays the line breaks as an extra space on the first occurrence and as no space for the following pages. so if I use the line break in place of a space, the following footers don't have a space at all. I use line breaks frequently in headings that are variables for footers. I kind of need this to be fixed. ... View more

Yes. I can verify that this bug is still not fixed. I'm on the latest updated Indesign, and it's doing it again. I tried exporting to IDML and rebuilding the file, but the footer variables are still adding and missing spaces based on whether they are the first or following of a style containing a forced line break. ... View more

Update: I turned off "Backup Multitrack Session Files automatically," and that seems to have stopped the freezing every few minutes (that interval was set to 3 minutes, so it was probably hanging for a minute every 3 minutes). It still hesitates and goes gray and not-responding for about a minute or two whenever I do a save. I've left "auto save recovery data" on (every 10 minutes) and so far I have not noticed a hesitation on that interval. So maybe it's something in the support files that is causing the problem? ... View more

I wish it was that simple. I'm saving to a local data drive on my computer. I do have several cloud spaces that I work on but not for my podcast. I export mixdowns to my Google Drive but I don't have enough space on any of my cloud accounts to keep my session files on them. My 2T harddrive was getting a bit full so I spent an hour or so last night clearing some space on it, thinking that might fix the problem, but it didn't help at all. ... View more

An additional note. I do believe it is some kind of auto saving problem since it also hangs in a similar fashion when I manually save. ... View more

Well, it would be a little harder than replacing an end of paragraph marker with a line break because in all of my flow between multiple books, the Section number paragraphs have a variety of different formatting from the Section header paragraph. I would have to recreate spacing between the lines using leading instead of paragraph spacing, create character styles for the different formatting, and then embed them in the paragraph style, in addition to copying in a GREP variable that I don't actually understand myself. And then I'd have to check through already approved text to make sure I didn't mess anything up. I'm bringing this issue up late in the game and that is on me, but this is an issue that has plagued me for years. Your proposed solution, while very interesting, is by no means obvious. I do believe it is a bug and am going to report it as such. If it works in a predictable manner for a single story, it should work the same predictable manner even when multiple stories are in use. In fact, I rarely use one continuous story in long document layouts, so I had no idea it even worked in a single story until I was working with you here. Elaborate workarounds should not be necessary to recreate a predictable behavior in a slightly different workflow. I do appreciate your help, and I will definitely consider your workaround if I have the ability to group the two items into a paragraph with forced line breaks. Hopefully, I won't lose your GREP formula. ... View more

I have no reason to say that your work around using the grep styles wouldn't work. It's not going to be applicable for my current workflow. It would be easier to manually modify the affected footers than redo all of my titling through multiple sections and books. I admit that a GREP work-around never occur to me because GREP is a huge mystery to me. I can't wrap my mind around it. I can only copy GREP formulas that other people give me. I will keep your examples for future use. I'm wondering if the fact that this doesn't work with multiple stories but it does work with a single story means that this is a bug that needs fixing. ... View more

I wish it worked for me. I don't need to worry about the section changing in the middle of the page. All of my sections start on a new page, so it doesn't matter whether it is set to first on page or last on page. I still get the previous sections section number in the footer, and I've tried both settings. I will add that in this particular case the section number and header is a separate story because the text is an InCopy link that requires a different header in different books. I did notice when creating this test that if the text is all inflow then the section # does go back to blank, but it appears that if different stories are involved, it doesn't. My workflow has multiple stories, so maybe that is where the problem lies. ... View more

You would think that would work, but as I said in my original post, it doesn't. I tried it, and the previous section number still carries over. I wish it did work that way because I wouldn't have posted the question if it did. ... View more

Unfortunately, as I said in my original post, adding spaces doesn't work for my setup. The styles I'm pulling are separate paragraphs, but the footer is not. The colon is part of the running header, so if I use a space, I end up with a floating colon between the page number and the section header. At the beginning of the book, if I start without a section number (in the case picture "Day"), that section is not filled in the footer, but as soon as I use a section number, I can't negate it again. I have to manually edit the footer to delete it. ... View more

Resetting the preferences seems to have fixed it. I should have done that first, but I hate having to redo all my preferences. ... View more

Thanks. It definitely works to skip the dialogue, and the file I tested it on opened without crashing ID. Now I need to figure out why the Missing Font dialogue causes a crash. I appreciate the work around. ... View more

So, it's my personal login to my Adobe account inside a cooperate environment that is at issue? Hmm, that's interesting. I may be the only one in our work zone that uses my own adobe account. I didn't see any reason for the company to pay for my Adobe products when I also have to pay for them for personal uses outside of work. I will add that to my IT request. Thanks for the information. ... View more

Thanks! I am in a company IT environment. I forwarded this discussion to the IT department to see if they can sort it out. Can you say specifically what needs to be checked for in the cooperate firewall? ... View more