Comments on: Clean Up in Aisle CS4: Resetting Workspaces

By: Amber

Amber — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:11:32 +0000

Since my computer that I am using now is not capable of CS5. I just tried using this one and I wanna thank you for sharing such great and informative article about CS4. You just don’t know how you much help me in here.

Amber

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:34:15 +0000

@Jean-Marc: This does work for me in CS5.

By: Jean-Marc Levy

Jean-Marc Levy — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:47:06 +0000

Anne-Marie,
Am I wrong? It does not seem to work anymore with CS5? I just tried many and many times this morning and I always get the alterated workspace.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 25 May 2010 06:50:19 +0000

I haven’t actually read this article, Anne-Marie. But I love the title.

By: Eelco

Eelco — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:06:04 +0000

What has bothered me is that if I make a change to my workspace, remove a panel for instance, then resave my workspace and finally reload that workspace, it has actually saved nothing. The panel removed is still there.
I’ve found out that when you reload another workspace first and then reload your own workspace, all is fine.
Anyone else that has this “problem”?

By: BlueKDesign

BlueKDesign — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:07:32 +0000

Here’s an even easier option for Windows, though I’ll bet it would work for Mac as well. Say you have a custom workspace named ‘Super Happy.’ Quit InDesign. Locate the workspace XML files in the prefs folder. Delete the Super Happy_CurrentWorkspace.xml file. Copy the Super Happy.xml file and rename it Super Happy_CurrentWorkspace.xml.

Here is the coup de foie gras: make the CurrentWorkspace version Read Only. InDesign can no longer write changes you make to palette positions, so the workspace will stay pristine and unadulterated.