Reply To: Dysfunctional File

Hi Rivkah, I have this issue with certain files but I think it is more about performing specific edits than the file itself because restarting and repeating the same edit causes the crash every time.

I suspect what is happening is that somewhere in the affected reflow there is an endless loop created in something like wrapping or breaks when it tries to honour all the style rules. To be honest when it happens it seems impossible to resolve so I make other edits and come back to it hoping that things have shifted around enough for it to work.

I always send crash reports but despite this happening for at least the last 5 major versions of Indesign this error type is not being trapped. While I work with chapter files with a single story in each running through master pages, Steve’s suggestion to split stories sounds like good advice if you can do that.