Issues with Footnotes and Text Flow

[Symmasticor]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help me understand what I'm doing wrong in trying to get my footnotes to not cause enormous whitespace in my text frames (as pictured). Have made sure that there are no adverse flow settings in my Normal and Footnote text style (as pictured). Am not sure where I'm going wrong - this is my first serious usage of this style of software so I am sure I'm missing something. 

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[Old Bruce]

This has to do with the first footnote on the next page. If you change to having the notes Below the Frame to Bottom of Frame it will look better. Most likely you'll have to change the size of text frames.

[MikeTO]

Bruce is right. You have a lot of footnotes and using Below Frame limits how many notes will fit. When you use Below Frame, a Max Total Height option appears to prevent the notes from running off the bottom of the page and you have it set to 72 pt.

Change the setting to Below Frame for the first note and then choose Revert All Footnotes to Document Settings from the panel options menu. Then change the height of the frames on the master page.

[Symmasticor]

I have found a way to avoid the whitespace and have my footnotes at the same height on each column: Below Frame and have 2x text frames per page acting as the columns. Is this a roughly workable solution or is there something obvious I am missing?

Edited April 8 by Symmasticor

[MikeTO]

@Symmasticor You could do the same thing with one text frame divided into two columns with the setting of Below Column. If you're okay with having the footnotes appear below the column instead of the frame it should help avoid the issue to some extent.

Good luck