Consistently crashing when updating cross references across a book

[geoffreyp37178285]

Hi

I have a book (indb) over 8 files. I recently moved some sections around in one of the books.

Now I cannot use the update cross references function from the book - it always crashes. I can provide a macOS crash report. The thread stack points pretty conclusively at the hyperlink library: com.adobe.InDesign.Hyperlinks

I am using CC on a Mac. The files are in dropbox. I share these files with a windows user.

What can I do? Is there a way I can use to find the corruption? Or a workaround?

Cheers

Geoff

[Barb Binder]

I am using CC on a Mac.

Which Mac OS, exactly? (Apple > About this Mac)

Which InDesign version, exactly? (InDesign CC > About InDesign)

Have you tried storing the files locally and not on dropbox? Does that make a difference?

[geoffreyp37178285]

Mac: 10.12.5 (16F73)

CC: 2017.1 release, 12.1.0.56 Build

I can't move the files off dropbox  because then all the inter-file cross-references will break. Cross references use absolute file paths, not relative paths, which is very inconvenient. The files are effectively pinned in pace (I suspect it is possible to write a script to correct them, but I haven't looked deeply into that). Is there such a script?

By using the cross-reference pane I was able to find and repair some of them. Even if I can fix them all that way and that fixes the crashing problem, it is still the case that InDesign should not crash when it encounters a dangling cross-reference - it should give a good message and then stop trying to update them.

Cheers

Geoff