Help! CS3 InDesign will not launch

Suddenly, I am not able to get my InDesign to open. It starts, then I get the message that the program is closing. What can I try?

You should tell us what OS you are using, and what happened the last time you used ID.
Did it shut down normally?
Have you run any updates of any sort or installed any new fonts since you last successfully started InDesign?
If you get any error message, what is the exact wording?
Without anything further to go on, the best I can offer right now is to tell you to remove all files from the InDesign Recovery Data folder. It will be in your user library on Mac or your user profile under Windows unless you had set your preferences to put it in another location.

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