Is this a new thing … you used to be able to export a lot of stories in a normal amount of time, now it's very slow? Or is this the first time you're using InCopy? Or something in between?

What happens if you export just a page worth of stories? Does that take a long time too?

What happens if you create a new document, add a few different text frames, and choose Export All Stories … long time? Or not so long.

The trick is diagnosing if it's the document or the program or your computer.

AM

Yes. Try exporting your INDD file to INX or IDML, then opening that INX or IDML file back up in the same version of ID. It'll open as an Untitled document. Save it with a new name.

Also try exporting just a spread's worth of stories. You may have a corrupt story file somewhere.

It's always possible that the document is healthy but just constructed very poorly. (I've seen some nightmares.) For example, every line or paragraph is in its own text frame. Or someone accidentally Pasted in Place 50+ times. Other than document corruption, that's the only think I could imagine that would make exporting all stories take so long. Even for long, complex documents, the export shouldn't take longer than a couple minutes, max.

AM

Yay! Glad it's working for you now.

AM