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xstarchguy
xstarchguy
Participant
February 12, 2020
Question

PSD Icons on desktop now show as a pencil icon

  • February 12, 2020
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Made some changes to my systen settings, to deactivate downloading photos every time I connect my iPhone.  After making several changes to my system settings, any psd thumbnail icons on my destop now show up with a "pencil" icon, rather than a pic of the file itself.  How do I change a setting back to see what the file icon actually looks like on my desktop?

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Kenneth259341836p31
Participant
June 28, 2024

I had the same thing happen, it changed all my icons to sketch art. I went to my apps, did a search for the Sketch Art App (autodesk). and uninstalled it since it is for web apps and such which I dont use. Now all my Photoshop icons are back.

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Teresa5EAB
Participant
June 23, 2021

hi how did you solve this problem my computer is doing it to ?

 

rebeccak51515353
rebeccak51515353
Participant
October 29, 2020

Hi, Did you solve this problem. I'm having the same proplem and dont know how to fix it.

Rebecca

 

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Harr5D64
Participant
February 1, 2021

I have the same issue. Can anyone figure out what is causing this?

Sahil.Chawla
Adobe Employee
Sahil.Chawla
Adobe Employee
February 12, 2020

Hi there,

That does not sound right, could you please try chaning the file assocation settings and make Photoshop the default app for opening psd files?

Windows: https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-change-file-associations-in-windows-2624477
macOS: https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/how-to-manage-file-associations-in-macos/

Regards,
Sahil

    xstarchguy
    xstarchguyAuthor
    Participant
    February 12, 2020

    Thanks for your response.  I went thru the procedure that you listed for Windows.  Went to the default setting and found the .psd file extension.  Clicked on Photoshop CS6 and the desktop icons still look like pencils and when doble clicked - open in Autodesk Sketchbook.

     

    I had never gotten into this setting dialog box earlier.  I must have checked/unchecked some other type of setting.  Any other suggestions?

     

    TY in advance.

    Steve

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