Document opens to random location

Question

My friend and I are both using CS4 on Macs, we each ran Leopard and upgraded to Snow Leopard, but he has always had a problem with InDesign opening documents to random locations, rather than the last saved location. I've never had a problem with that... InDesign always opens to the place where I last saved. He's had this problem in both Leopard and Snow Leopard. Any ideas?
Thanks!
Mark

Answer 1

My part of the project involves editing 3 separate files that will later be joined in a single multi-paned document. These 3 are being edited against a preexisting 4th, which has the content of an earlier version. The 3 primary files are edited constantly. The 4th is only edited when an error is noticed (i.e., I sometimes stumble upon errors in the earlier version, in the process of referencing it to create the new version; when I do, I fix them).
I am almost positive that I leave the cursor at the last known position of editing when each document is saved and ID is closed for the day. This is something we can easily verify with two people looking. For additional testing, I will try to start making a minor change/change-back at the end of my work for the day, so that the cursor can be clearly seen at the last save point for each file. I will document this process, making a note of the exact cursor position at the final save and close point. Then I will document exactly where the cursor appears for each file when opening for the next day's work.
Can you think of anything else I should track should this turn out to be a bug? (I usually have at least 8 apps and a couple of backup processes running all the time.)
Thanks!