Inexplicable crashes

Question

I'm baffled by this.
Whenever I try to cut or copy a certain text frame within a certain document in Indesign, it immediately crashes. (I'm using CS6 on a 2010 MacBook Pro with Yosemite and all the latest updates/patches applied.)
I've tried working around this, but the document is quite large, and the type of text frame that causes the crash is on every single page of this document, and I frequently want to copy it, or at least text within it.
Taking it a step further, if I select specific text within the text frame and try to cut/copy it, it will also crash ID instantly. But not just any text, only a certain paragraph style. The rest of the text copies fine, but if I select any text within the particular paragraph style, it will crash.
After some trial and error, I've found that even if I delete all the text within the offending paragraph style, this will still not allow me to copy the entire text frame. The only thing that will allow me to copy the text frame is to do a command + A and delete the entire contents of the text frame. Anything short of this will cause a crash. Even if I select all and reassign another paragraph style to the entire text frame, it still crashes. And puzzlingly, if delete the entire contents of the text frame, and then manually retype the exact same thing, assigning the same paragraph styles as before, it will then allow me to copy/cut as usual with no issues.

Answer 1

@Eric – did you try to export that text frame as IDMS and place that Snippet file in a new document?
If that would work, I mean editing the placed text frame in the new document, something is wrong with your paragraph styles in your original document.
I would then rename the affected paragraph style in the new document and copy/paste the text frame to the original document working on with that and getting rid of all the corrupted ones.
Exporting to IDML could be also a solution, but opening that, saving as a new InDesign document, could mean that you have to go through all the pages and check if all formatting, positioning of objects, text composition is in order.
Uwe