InDesign CS6 refuses to save!

Do you know why?
When I´ve worked for a while on a document, and want to close it, InDesign want let me save it. Only option is to close without saving, and starting all over. Very frustrating :-/ This problem started after I downloaded InDesign CS6 from Creative Cloud, I´ve never had that problem before..

hmm... did you try a reset to default configuration ?
hold down ctrl+shift+alt and start indesign. perhaps there will be a message if u are in Windows regarding privilages, still hold down while accepting. then there comes the Reset all settings dialog.
But you will lose all your configuration if you had those
hope i could help

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