If you don’t keep everything up to date you’ll find that again you will have issues with InDesign not wanting to open or crashing all the time. When I was using a Mac I seemed to be forever updating the system and obviously this has an impact on the application that you are using. I was a die hard Mac User for 20+ years and last year changed to Windows PC. The other issue is a System update, which I find is more Mac OS related than Windows. And also do regular restarts of your machine. Try and make a note of it if you have had a flash notification and complete the update as soon as you can. Sometimes it’s just not practical to do an update. Turning this off leads to future problems, with programmes crashing or hanging because it needs an update, to get rid of any bugs in the system. Your Creative Cloud is more than likely to auto update and this is how it should be.

System and Application Updatesĭue to the way Adobe now offers its programs, on a monthly / yearly subscription everyone stays relatively up to date. This will mean that you will have to reset your preferences to your own ideal once you have your fresh version open. The problem is if you can’t open your InDesign Application you may not have saved a Preference File. But if you change preferences when a document is already open these settings will only be applicable for this document. If you alter preference settings before opening a document these will then become the default for all documents. They operate how your document will behave and look when you open it. They are settings that control types of measurements, display options and what panels are open and where. So what do preferences actually affect if you can’t or are not able to save a copy of your preferences?

Save your Selected Preferences as a file called InDesign Defaults. However, you may need to make a backup copy of your Preferences if you use very specific ones a lot. If you are having a clash with an older version, this is the best fix for this issue. This will reset all preferences to the default settings.

You will be asked if you want to delete all preferences.

Open adobe indesign cc 2017 files