Publisher 2.0.3 Mac – Publisher crashes reproducibly when changing footnotes to sidenotes

Hi, I started to work on a book project yesterday. The text was written in word and contains about 250 footnotes. It imports smoothly into the text frames I have created, showing all the footnotes without issue. But when I activate the replacement function in publisher (Text --> Notes) Publisher crashes, i.e. it just disappears from the screen. An info window with a report for Apple appearing a few seconds later is all info I get. I am running Pub 2 on a MacBook Pro M1 with M1pro a

Hi Jan, I can't reproduce the crashing problems and I have the same system as you. Could you share a test docx file? I recommend dividing this up into batches. Divide the Word document into logical chunks, perhaps chapters, and import just the file into a frame. Get that one working first. With fewer notes hopefully you'll have fewer problems. Then start a new series of linked frames for chapter 2 and import the second file into that. Convert that to sidenotes. And so on. I don't know that