Font Management problem InDesign CC

My InDesign CC crashed. When I try to reopen it I get this message:
Adobe InDesign does not recognize Font Manager.InDesignPlugin as a valid plug-in. Please reinstall the Font Manager.InDesignPlugin plug-in and restart InDesign.
Do I need to get a new Font Manager. I have been using Font Agent Pro and it worked for a couple of weeks fine with the Cloud Creative suite...but now it won't.
Any suggestions?

Thanks! I reinstalled InDesignCC and when I was doing that I got a notice that Adobe was having some problem on their end and to come back later. I think some of this was a problem on their end. I followed some else's advice to deactivate something in the Utilities which I did. Anyway, it is working now but I have to reinstall InDesignCC again because when I did it was a trial version. I am a subscriber and need the permanent version.
Thanks for your help.
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