How much ram do you have in your Macbook? If you don't have at least 4GB it could give you problems.

I called Apple Tech support and talked with someone who walked me through removing preferences in a couple of different folders. That seemed to help quite a bit and cut down on some of the hangs. I also open disk utilities and repair permissions at least once a week. The biggest difference, and by that I mean I went for a week without a single hang, was that I disabled the Norton's internet security package I had installed. Then it started hanging again so I reinstalled Nortons.

I'm having hangs again. Not as often but 3 or 4 times randomly throughout the day and it's not just when I open files.

I'm beginning to think it is a problem with CS5 and not with the OSX operating system. I say this because I don't have a problem with anything other than Indesign.

Since Microsoft is trying to buy Adobe, I don't look for a fix to this problem.

True it is a rumor. But sometimes the rumors have a way of developing into the truth.

I'm just not real happy with the latest version of Creative Suite. I dumped Quark back when Indesign 2 came out and I haven't touched it but one or two times since then.

So far, this version of Indesign has proven to be too buggy for my work experience and all I get from Adobe tech support (when I get someone who actually speaks understandable English) is that it is an Apple operating system problem or maybe a corrupt font or maybe a third party software problem.

In all fairness, Mac tech support does claim that it seems to be an Adobe problem.

All I know is that I didn't have the problem until I installed CS5. CS4 was a workhorse.

Do you have any anti-virus software installed? I had Norton's internet security for Mac installed. Just as an idea, I uninstalled it from my system and for some reason that has helped a lot. I went three days without a hang and then had a couple of days where it only did it once a day.

I'm actually more inclined to think it is a possible font problem because I do have some old fonts that I hate to spend the money on replacing or else there is a bug in either the OS or with Creative Suite that they haven't identified yet. Therefore I make sure I send the report to either Apple or Adobe when I do a force quit. Maybe one of the future updates will resolve it.

I wouldn't have my hard disk wiped - especially since it's a new computer.

...eh, no. WTF Adobe?

Don't know what the update fixed but it wasn't the problem. I've had four Indesign hangs already this morning.

These were when opening documents that were created yesterday, worked in yesterday, opened and closed yesterday - all with no problem.

It happens when I choose to open from the file menu. It happens when I select the file from my hard drive and double click on it to open. There is no rhyme or reason.

So after I removed the plug-ins folder, I placed them back again one by

one, and found that the plug-in that caused the problem was the plug-in called SING.InDesignPlugin in the text folder. Then I also found this thread: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3013514

Just remove the plug-in and relaunch InDesign. It seemed to have work for everyone!

No I don't have any 3rd party plug-ins. I've only recently installed cs5. In fact, I'm still using the trial version but I solved the problem by removing SING.InDesignPlugin. It seems to be the plug-in that's causing everyone the problem.

I also removed the InCopyWorkflow folder and the Xmedia folder. I don't do anything requiring those plug-ins so maybe between the three I will have solved my problem.