For the Design Professionals: .INDD files not recovnized.

I recently updated my CS Suite to Adobe's new Cloud subscription program. If you haven't you should it's quite sweet (yes, bad pun intended).





However, that's not what this blog is about. It's about what happened when I did and research shows that's it's an issue going back more than 7 years. After loading the new suite I noticed that all of the previous suites were still on this poor old-old-old computer. Needing all the resources it could spare I uninstalled all of the previous versions. Looking in the app folder, I noticed that although the applications were uninstalled all the folders and source files were still there. I did a manual select and deleted the files to clean up the clutter on my, did I mention, old hard drive.


Things were working fine except for this very annoying problem, Indesign did not recognize the .INDD files any more and double clicking them resulted into a fruitless chasing a rabbit down a hole game. Even when trying to do an "Open With" and selecting Indesign the file would not work. Actually it tried to associate the file with Illustrator instead.



Long story short this bug is a known issue and what I did to resolve it was use my control panel to delete the existing .INDD identifier and create a new one. Rather than explain it and risk missing something, I've provided the link below to Adobe.

helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/file-associations-broken-uninstall-applications.html

Thanks and enjoy.