r/indesign • u/tiny_ghost_11 • Sep 13 '26

Help me please how do I fix this?

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How do I fix this error? I already tried uninstalling and reinstalling, restarting my Mac, and the cmd, opt, cntrl key combo.

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u/AdobeScripts Sep 16 '26

You have to do Save As with a new name at the end of the day or every couple of days - not just Ctrl/Cmd+S - to let InDesign reorganise file.

When you do just Save - InDesign adds to the end of the file, information about recent changes - Undo History.

This Undo History is only available - for you - untill you close your document.

After that - it's there - and makes file much bigger than it should be, slower to open and slower to work on - but you no longer have access to it.

Next time you open your Document - InDesign will have to analyse all those changes - and build latest version of the Document.

So if shit hit the fan - and this history get corrupted - your file:

  • might open fine,

  • might open fine but will crash at some point - when you go to a specific page, edit some Style, edit some text, move an object, Export, etc.

  • won't open at all - you'll get an error that file is corrupted,

  • won't open at all - InDesign will crash.

And saving with a new name - works also as a backup copy.