Re: Indesign For Mac Cs6
Gro Bert
Luckily, the solution to my problem was very easy. When Drop Box downloads the InDesign file it adds a .TXT to the file name. Don't know why. All I had to do was delete the ".txt" on the file name and it became a perfect InDesign file. Thank you to the pepole who replied!!
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I still have the same problem as you in that if I ty to download a single file I get a text file - just like yours - the problem with the offered solution is that all my indesign files are in the same folder which is huge and I couldnt download the whole thing as my HD at home is too small. So What I did was make a smaller folder and moved the indesign files I needed into that then moved that to the main window and synched. I will try downloading that folder as advised tonight and see if that works too. The only issue there is that I end up with a lot of duplicate files on different machines which is the reason i started using dropbox in the first place - ie to avoid duplicates.
Here it is July 2018 and this is still happening. Deleting the .txt extention or downloading the whole folder fix the problem, but why is this happening? I assumed I was doing something wrong, but we can all be doing something wrong.
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Just to follow up on this thread, our engineering team pushed a fix for this late last week - InDesign files should now be downloading normally, without appending a .txt to the end of the file name. If anyone is still experiencing this, please let me know!
I haven't found a solution to the zooming issue, in fact pinching on my touchpad currently scross left and right. However, I have found that hovering the mouse over the scroll bar, whilst using two fingers on the touchpad, allows me to scroll up and down as normal. Hope this is helpful
Exactly same thing for me, it just scrolls left and right. I already knew about hovering on the scroll bar but the problem is that at that point I might as well use it normally. Thanks anyway for your contribution.
Update:
I reopened Illustrator after not using it for a few years, and browsing through the preferences I found this: (Edit > Preferences > General > ) Force Enable Pinch-to-Zoom on Touchpad.
Selecting it solved the zoom problem.
UPDATE:
Upgraded today to 19.0.
Now trackpad gestures work even worse. Basically 9 times out of 10 it doesn't even recognize them and in the remaining 1/10 they work just as badly as before.
Thank you for answering me.
All drivers are updated.
However I can't update to 23H2 due to a windows update error (0x800f081f) and I'm waiting for info from Windows support.
Unfortunately this can't be the problem: I don't have any kind of problem in any software except indesign (although in general the "gesture" experience is not perfect in all the adobe apps I use) and I have had this problem since I started to use indesing (in 2021), well before 23H2 and Id 19.0.
(I asked for help on the forum only now because honestly I only discovered its existence recently.)
I've already tried resetting the preferences and reinstalling InDesign, I believe I mentioned it somewhere in this thread. If not, here it is. As expected, no difference.
Also, under the post about the 19.0 touchpad bug, now ""resolved"", someone commented on the same issue as mine, so it's definitely not an issue specific to my system. I'll repost the screenshot of one of the comments.
My team's INDD crashes intensified around the same time as yours. Now I can't even perform one function and save without InDesign crashing. The only reliable workaround is to package the file to my local drive and save to Box after I'm done. Embedding graphics instead of keeping the links live also helps. My IT department also suggests these stopgap measures. Neither of these workarounds is a viable workflow because the inevitable versioning fiascoes that will happen with multiplying files being saved on several local computers.
I've actually found the same problems. It appears that since the linked files are stored in the cloud and not downloaded locally, every time you change a page that has a different image placed, you have to wait for it to download from the cloud to render the preview in indesign. And, even if you get through that page, go to a different page (and wait all over again) and go back to that initial page, it still has to re-download the assets locally again, like it doesn't remember you just previews that page. And then you can continue to work. This takes ages though and usually causes multiple indesign crashes (Thankfully, so far no files have been corrupted though!). And in my work, linked files can be hundreds of megabytes so it takes ages! I've found 2 workarounds. one like Seth suggested, packaging the files to a local area, or in my dropbox folder since I can at least store my dropbox on an external drive. Or marking the entire root folder to be available offline within box drive.
The problem with this workaround, or need for a workaround, is that I've just moved my company from an on-prem Mac server to box drive. and all of the designers are new to box and they've all been like freaking out with how slow indesign operates within box. loosing faith in the decision to move in the first place. It is painfully frustrating. I can't say if this is an adobe problem or a box problem. But it seems to me that if I open a file that has links to other locations within box, then maybe box should be able to identify those links and automatically download them, and keep them cached while to main file is opened. But, maybe that's what Adobe should do as well :-)
My instinct tells me the solution for InDesign crashing, lagging, or causing problems lies with Adobe. I also work on several Microsoft products over Box, and never have any issues with them. Adobe says they don't support third party applications, but ignoring cloud computing is incredibly blind in today's connected and collaborative world. Adobe needs to be responsive to customers' needs, and they need to collaborate with Box and other cloud services to make their product viable.
Just want to add my voice and frustrations with this. This is 100% an Adobe InDesign issue because I use box for Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects and Premiere all with multiple linked files and have zero issues EXCEPT with InDesign. I'm guessing InDesign is still running some legacy crap linking code back during the era when they had to compete with Quark or something and that team does not interface with the other Adobe product team that has already figured this out.
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