Indesign CS 5.5 & CS 6 Text Frame Resize Crushing app

I have a document that crushes indesgn CS5 & CS 6 when trying to resize a text frame. I have tried to export the document to IDML and it crushes. I can't even export to PDF.
This is an annual report which needs to go for printing in 24hours. I have tried to get support from Adobe and currently wondering what is the next step for our group of companies affected by this huge mess.
My TS case no is 183647068.

We're just ordinary users, like you.
When things go this badly south I would try exporting each story to InDesign Tagged Text (and if that also fails, Try RTF), then place the exported stories into a new file.
When all else fails, there's markzware: Bad InDesign or Quark File Recovery Submission Form

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I'm newbibe to Indesign forums.
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Its possible to change text frame contents inside group..?
-yajiv

Hi Siraj,
Thank you very much for your assistance...
Actually I need swap both group of image and text frame to another group of image box and text frame.
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www.adobescripts.com

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2126 main
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2126 0x1cd60fef
2126 SendEventToEventTarget
2126 SendEventToEventTargetInternal(OpaqueEventRef*, OpaqueEventTargetRef*, HandlerCallRec*)
2126 DispatchEventToHandlers(EventTargetRec*, OpaqueEventRef*, HandlerCallRec*)
2126 ToolboxEventDispatcherHandler(OpaqueEventHandlerCallRef*, OpaqueEventRef*, void*)
2126 SendEventToEventTarget
2126 SendEventToEventTargetInternal(OpaqueEventRef*, OpaqueEventTargetRef*, HandlerCallRec*)
2126 DispatchEventToHandlers(EventTargetRec*, OpaqueEventRef*, HandlerCallRec*)
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2126 GetPlugIn
2126 GetPlugIn
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2126 CEventDispatcher::DispatchToEventHandlers(IEvent*)
2126 CDefaultEH::ButtonDblClk(IEvent*)
2126 CWindowEH::ButtonDblClk(IEvent*)
2126 PanelEventHandler::ButtonDblClk(IEvent*)
2126 PanelEventHandler::ButtonDblClk(IEvent*)
2126 PanelEventHandler::ButtonDblClk(IEvent*)
2126 PanelEventHandler::ButtonDblClk(IEvent*)
2126 0x1f6bb8b8
2126 GetPlugIn
2126 0x1cfbf039
2126 CSubject::Change(IDType<ClassID_tag>, IDType<PMIID_tag> const&, void*)
2126 GetPlugIn
2126 GetPlugIn
2126 0x1afdcfdb
2126 0x1afdc658
2126 0x1afdb09c
2126 0x1cfa0675
2126 PanelView::Show(short)
2126 PanelView::ParentsVisibleStateChanged(short)
2126 CControlView::DoAutoAttach()
2126 GetPlugIn
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2126 CControlView::Show(short)
2126 CComboBoxView::DoAutoAttach()
2126 CControlView::DoAutoAttach()
2126 CFontFamilyObserver::AutoAttach()
2126 CFontFamilyObserver::Init(short)
2126 0x1e757c45
2126 GetPlugIn
2126 GetPlugIn
2126 GetPlugIn
2126 GetPlugIn
2126 GetPlugIn
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(Sorry, that's kind of long. Maybe I should have formatted it differently?)
But clearly it has something to do with Fonts (CFontFamilyObserver), and something to do with one particular story (FixEndCharacterSingleStory()).
Then when we look actually closer to the top of the stack:
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 2121 StoryEndCharHelper::GetFontAttributes(ITextModel*, long, boost::shared_ptr<AttributeBossList>*)
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 1102 GetPlugIn
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 963 GetPlugIn
 889 GetPlugIn
 768 GetPlugIn
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 578 icu_3_6::RuleBasedCollator::setUCollator(char const*, UErrorCode&)
 578 ucol_open_internal_3_6
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 933 GetPlugIn
 865 GetPlugIn
 812 GetPlugIn
 744 GetPlugIn
 647 GetPlugIn
 538 boost::basic_regex<int, boost::icu_regex_traits>::do_assign(int const*, int const*, unsigned int)
Well, I made some attempt to filter out the weeds. A substantial amount of time is spent in the regular expression library. Do you have GREP styles? They may be part of the problem.
If we can resolve this without needing to know which GetPlugIn() are which, that would be helpful. Otherwise you'll need to [maybe?] upgrade to 10.6.8; force a crash (View > Send Signal > Abort (SIGABRT)) in Activity Monitor, which may not be easy to do usefully, since if the crash happens during one of the unremarkable parts of the beachball, it won't tell us anything; break out fancier less user-friendly tools like Instruments.app or gdb.
I don't suppose you're familiar with any of those tools?
So, I would try removing all your non-system fonts and seeing if that changes the behavior. Or tightening up GREP styles...
Or pulling out the heavy guns.

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