Reply To: InDesign shuts down to often.

I wonder if that is the problem. I know it used to be recommended that you don’t work on files across a network or the net. That one should work on the file on their main hard drive and then back it up to the server (or Dropbox in your case).

Not unless things have changed and so has the advice.

A month or so back, I had to update a bunch of art on a job and the file and art were huge (almost 20 gigs). It would have taken an hour for me to copy everything to my system. So I decided to update the art by doing it via the server as I thought it would save time. It didn’t. I opened the file on the server and updated the first piece and let InDesign update the rest. Took almost an hour and I had the spinning ball the entire time. It wasn’t InDesign having issues, it was InDesign having to update art across a network.