For most all users of Adobe InDesign CS3 since updating to OSX Leopard, using the "Hide" feature, either via the InDesign menu item, Command + H, or Option + clicking on the desktop or other application window, results in the inability to get InDesign back as the foreground application. This leaves you with no other alternative but to force quit InDesign. Thankfully there is a fix available that works on every Mac I've tried it on.
- Go into your User/Library/Caches/Adobe InDesign folder and move the contents to your desktop. For most, this will be a single folder called "Version 5.0" which contains several files.
- Relaunch InDesign and the Hide option should work.
- Once you've tested the Hide option via one of the methods above, and are satisfied that all is working normal with InDesign, delete the original "Version 5.0" folder from your desktop.
None of your InDesign preferences should have changed, so you should be good to go at this point.
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Nope
Tried it three time, the last with a restart, and no dice... as they say...
Uhm, nope.
Didn't work for me at all, either. MacBook Pro, Leopard, 10.5.2, InDesign CS3.
Worked for me
I deleted the entire Adobe InDesign folder inside the caches folder and it worked. I can now hide ID again. Thanks!
old problem
I've been dealing with this for some years now. This isn't specifically an Adobe app problem.
check out this thread I started:
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=79911
The hiding problem just happened the other day with Flash this time. I think it's the first time it's happened since upgrading to 10.5.2. It used to happen a few times a week.
Thanks, JD
Worked just as you described. I'm on Tiger, ID version 5.02.
Now, if you could only figure out how to make that damned Acrobat 8 icon stop bouncing!!!
Work With Pete!
Bouncing icon
Are you talking about the Acrobat icon bouncing just after you launch Acrobat? Simply bringing the app to the foreground stops the bouncing, but I can't figure out what's causing it to begin with. I've turned off virtually everything in prefs and it still does it.
Have you declined auto
Have you declined auto updates? Acrobat's had a lot of them lately.
ttfn
3 Dog
Not sure
To be honest, I haven't stayed on top of updates to Acrobat in the past. But I have auto-update turned off anyway.
Didn't work for me either
Didn't work for me either until I tried Dan's approach and that's worked...for now. Pete, update your Acrobat to the latest version and the bouncing goes away.
Delete Adobe InDesign folder
Didn´t work for me either until I tried Mike´s approach and that worked... for now.
worked after log out
The missing step from the instructions is to log out and then log back in. It worked after I did that. Thanks!
Shouldn't have to log out
I didn't log out on any of the machines I tried it on, but it's certainly worth the effort if it isn't working right off the bat.
Hold on...
Shit. No longer works for me. I also tried the log out but that didn't help. The only thing that does seem to help (with hiding and crashing through NavSvcs) is a lucky restart.
I can't believe Apple and Adobe can't figure this out. It's the only app I've had issues with since upgrading to Leopard (including other CS3 apps, Office 2008—although Entourage can be flaky, Aperture, Final Cut Studio and a variety of smaller apps).
working / not working
It worked fine on my macbookpro 10.5 with cs3 but not on my macpro tower with the same OS and software. Boooo! Any more suggestions??
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