Reply To: Having some serious errors…

Perhaps the problem lies not in the document but in your local fonts. If one got damaged somehow (it's always a mystery to me how something like that could happen!), InDesign will appear to work correctly right until it needs that font.

Even though the foundations of Adobe are firmly fixed into font creation, InDesign cannot work with a Bad Font, and rather than issuing an error message, it crashes. Hard.

If you know what fonts are used in the document, remove them (unless they are “system fonts”, in which case you would break even more) and see if InDesign opens your document. Of course it will complain there are some fonts missing, but if it does not creash, you know the cause. Only problem at that point is to find the original files for your fonts.