What The Untitled Disaster???

[triple one]

Perhaps i should be on hold right now with adobe tech support.

My beloved InDesign CS3 has been so much more stable than CS2 on my intel Mac G5... UNTIL TODAY.
Its quitting upon placing a file or attempting to save a file, THEN when I reopen the program, it opens the file i was working on 8 TIMES as an untitled document!

Has anyone else had anything like this happen? If i had 2 or 3 files open at the same time, it would create an untitled document 8 TIMES for EACH FILE!!!
see the attached screen shot, every one of those is the exact same file, and i dont know why the % changes either. really weird.
what the heck?
:confused:

[eugenetyson]

I had InD CS3 crash out on me when I placing MS Word files in. Turned out that it was because there was tracked changes involved in the MS Word file. I accepted all the changes in MS Word. Turned off tracked changes and it imported just fine. Perhaps there is something like that at play here? It's really hard to know unless we know what file type is involved and other information pertaining to the files and your actions.

[GuyB]

Hi triple one,

Don't know what it could be but you could try one or both of the following suggestions that worked in many occasions before CS3 :

1- Trash your preferences (hold Command-Option-Control-Shift while opening ID), a dialog will prompt you to delete the preferences.

2- Export your document as an InDesign Interchange format (.inx) and reopen it after.

[Paul C]

Suggestion #2 was a general fix for many things suggested at the Adobe CS3 conference.

Hope I don't have to use it too much.

pbc

[eugenetyson]

Wahey, just had this happen to me. Basically the file was a Template with fonts missing.

[triple one]

I believe that was the cause for mine as well, or maybe a corrupt font. I was working on 2 or 3 files from the same client, all have the same font, "meta".
yesterday i didnt have the problem of the repeated untitled documents, but indesign still kept crashing every time i tried to print, to any of our several printers, post script or not, even crashed upon trying to export to pdf.
i eventually converted all the text to outlines once the client was done making changes and have not had the problem since.

preflight didnt pick up anything.

i would have much rather had a font warning appear than the unpredictability of the program.

maybe in a future update...

[eugenetyson]

It looks like a programming error to be honest, I think it can't display some fonts that are in an image or a pdf that aren't on your system. Even though you have the original image/pdf and all the fonts, if it came from a different system or person who designed it then the font families don't always match, you'd have to check the linked documents in your file and correct them at source.

[flatlinegraphics]

when you are working on a file, indesign creates a temporary 'emergency recovery" file. these are deleted when you exit the program.
file is named something like "~halfpage_10x8_colo~j1s902.idlk", and may be a hidden file.
if you crash out, the temp files are not deleted. if this happens several times, you can get several recovery files left behind.
indesign automagically loads up the file when you restart. so if you have a bunch of temp files left, indesign will try to reload them at the last known save.
go to the root folder of your project, and look for those files. move them out into a temp file if you are paranoid, or just delete them and try restarting.