Problem moving pages within a pdf

I have been working with a fairly large document (around 1500 pages) and it is impossible to re-order the pages. An example: I will drag page 12 to page 2, and when I release the mouse button, the page will be at page 18. Inserting from a file leads to the same results. I will insert pages from the insert file dialog, set it to "First" (meaning I want the pages at the beginning of the document), and the pages will be inserted at page 10 or so. I am using Acrobat X Pro. I would greatly appreciate any help with this.

I presume you are using the Pages Pane in the Navigation Panel for your page dragging.
With such a large PDF, you may also want to Embed the Thumbnails at least while you are moving the pages around. This will help to speed up the 'refresh' of the pages in the Pane.
Expand the Pages Pane, click on the Gears icon and select Embed All Page Thumbnails.
Since this does increase the file size to the PDF, once you are finished, go back to the Gears and select Remove Embedded Page Thumbnails and then save.
In addition to the possible corruption, the location in where the pages are ending up makes me wonder about this possibility, too.
Hope that helps.

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>>> On 19/02/2013 at 2:26 PM, in message <[email protected]>, e-ebell<[email protected]> wrote:
I can't help you at the moment regarding your "PDF#page" problem.
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