Reply To: a normal save will not work, Indesign asks me to save as and where?????

ReadingG said:

I open up a document to work on it.

I make a few changes and then click save.

The save as window pops up asking me where I want to save it and what name do I wish to give the document.

This is made more annoying by the fact that the place where it offers to save it is the last location visited/used but usually not the location of the document that I am working on.

It sounds like you are opening documents created using an earlier version of InDesign than the one you are using. When you open the document, does the word “[converted]” appear after the original document name? If so, that is definitely what's happening. InDesign can only Save As, because the versiion of the document that you now have in memory is no longer compatible with the original that you just opened.

Unfortunately (and you're not the only person who gets driven crazy by this), InDesign doesn't offer to save it back to the original folder. That would be SUCH a useful preference setting…