Add single page in facing pages document leads to loss of story

[MikeTO]

test3.afpub (I created this with the 2.4 beta but I experienced this bug in 2.3.1, too.)

I keep tripping over a bug that causes an entire story to be deleted from the document. I wouldn't normally add single pages to a facing pages document because of the layout issue, but I'm doing a quick project so I'm taking shortcuts. I've lost entire stories many times in the past month and always noticed until much later so I always had to rescue it from a backup. But here's a simple example:

1. Add 1 page after page 10, it doesn't matter if you choose Master A or None.

After doing this, the last frame in story 2 will be linked to the first frame in story 3 - its overflow text will no longer be overflowing. Story 3 will have disappeared from the document.

In this test document:

• Most pages use Master A. The master frames on these pages are linked into stories and the stories have repeating text with Story 1, Story 2, Story 3 so I can see which stories are which. Each story has overlflowing text that starts with the words "Overflow" in red.
• Some document pages have no master applied. These pages are not linked together and have an independent text frame on them with story text Separate A, Separate B in them. I didn't do extensive testing but the bug won't trigger if I remove all of these separate pages without masters from the document.

Edited January 18, 2024 by MikeTO
noted that it's a beta doc

[NathanC]

Hi @MikeTO,

Thanks for raising this and providing a sample file, I'm not sure what's specifically causing this to trigger but it's definitely related to Master A being used for the initial text frame layout, as a test in your document I created a new empty master page and then applied this to all the pages in the document with 'migrate' enabled, this promoted all the master page text frames to standard frames, and after inserting 1 page after page 10 it no longer links Story 2's frames to Story 3 and therefore all the text content is retained.

Quite the concerning find as it does appear to have wiped out Story 3 completely, I've now logged this with the developers for further investigation