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Adobe InDesign Freezes When Loading: Initializing the SING Gaiji System (Windows)

If Adobe InDesign CS3 is freezing when you start the program while displaying ‘Initializing the SING Gaiji System’ then we can help.

This error pops up when you have a problem with your Sing plug-in. Most people don’t ever use their Sing plug-in but it sure does keep a lot of people from starting up InDesign. One of the steps below should resolve the issue.
Solutions:

  1. Delete the SING folder. It’s located at C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\SING
  2. Delete your SINGmeta.dat file. It’s located at C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Adobe\SING\Datastore\SINGmeta.dat
  3. Disable the plug-in all together by deleting it. It’s located at C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CS3\Plug-Ins\Text\SING.apln

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11 Responses to “Adobe InDesign Freezes When Loading: Initializing the SING Gaiji System (Windows)”

  1. Waunga Says:
    September 8th, 2007 at 3:11 pm

    Thank you SO MUCH! :-) for sending me an email with a link to these suggestions. = Deleting the SING.apln plug-in did the magic for me! Yeppie!

  2. Matt Caney Says:
    September 27th, 2007 at 5:03 pm

    Thanks for the help that really did solve a big headache I was developing

  3. chriscoyier Says:
    September 28th, 2007 at 3:25 am

    Glad we could help both of you! Please let us know if there is anything else we can help with (with any of the Adobe Creative Suite products!). There is a contact link in the sidebar.

  4. Cantagallino Says:
    October 9th, 2007 at 12:41 pm

    Delete the motherfucker, just go to indesign cs 3 folder in programs, search for it and kill it, it works for me perfectly!! im SO happy, all my work went standby because of this problem.

  5. Esben Says:
    January 7th, 2008 at 12:27 pm

    Thank you very much indeed!!

  6. johnny bizzle Says:
    February 24th, 2008 at 6:15 pm

    didnt werk fer beans.

  7. Lea Says:
    March 27th, 2008 at 7:34 am

    WUUHUUUUUUUU :D

    I’ve been sitting forever trying to find a solution to this damn problem ;)
    It has been sooo frustrating but this really help!!! :D

    Thank you very much!!! :D
    /Lea

  8. Julie Says:
    April 13th, 2008 at 9:18 am

    Tusind Tak Endelig lykkedes det at åbne Indesign CS3, ved at
    følge trin 1 og 3. Jeg havde ingen mappe jeg kunne slette i trin 2, men det lykkedes alligevel:

    1:Delete the SING folder. It’s located at C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\SING

    2:Delete your SINGmeta.dat file. It’s located at C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Adobe\SING\Datastore\SINGmeta.dat

    3:Disable the plug-in all together by deleting it. It’s located at C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CS3\Plug-Ins\Text\SING.apln

  9. Henrik Says:
    April 17th, 2008 at 8:36 am

    Works perfectly, thank´s a lot :-)

  10. taniaion Says:
    May 5th, 2008 at 5:42 pm

    yay!

    THANK YOU!!!!!

  11. Jacob Says:
    May 22nd, 2008 at 12:14 pm

    Thansk a lot !!
    I got it to work by following step 1. - 3.

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