TOC causing Indesign to Crash

[Optimusdinkus]

Every pancaking time I go to generate the document indesign crashes on me. Last time this happened it was a master page item that was causing the problem, but now there was absolutely nothing left except for one paragraph style of the item I need in the table of contents, and it still blows up on me. Any takers?

[garricks]

• Do a Save As... to save a new copy of the document. That sometimes blows some crap out.

• If that doesn't work, Save as an InDesign Interchange file (.inx). Then use File > Open to open the .inx in Indy.

• Trash your preferences. Launch Indy, then hold down Cmd-Opt-Shft-Ctrl and Indy will throw up a dialog box asking you if you want to delete prefs.

What version of Indy are you using?

[Optimusdinkus]

CS 3, Ill try that tommarow after this long day, thank you garricks

[garricks]

Try them in that order, Op. Trashing your prefs is pretty destructive if you've saved a lot of custom page sizes, etc.

[urstwile]

I keep a backup prefs file just for that kind of instance. Not sure if that saves custom page sizes though.

[garricks]

I know the prefs are stored in several different places. I'm not sure what's where, though. The Adobe U2U forums might have more information...

[urstwile]

I think it's the one in User>Library>Preferences>Adobe InDesign>Version 5.0>InDesign Defaults.

[garricks]

That makes sense.

I remember the Quark days, when I backed up the Prefs file daily. 'Cause of the constant crashing. ;)

[urstwile]

Yup, I remember those days too. ;)