Hi All, I'm on a new machine and recently installed CC. The problem is Windows Explorer any indesign.indd file is missing the Indesign Icon, instead showing a generic white document. Files for all the other Adobe apps are fine. I've tried:Re-associating .indd files with something else and then back to InDesignUninstall / reinstall InDesignDelete the windows icon cache "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\IconCache.db"Renaming "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Shell\CC.2022\icons.dll (& idicons.dll) to icons.dll.bak etc. But can't seem to find an alternative version to replace them with and it didn't make any difference anyway.Any ideas? This is annoying because it makes it harder to spot when you're looking for an InDesign file.

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Indesign Explorer File Icon MISSING

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February 25, 2022
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Hi All, I'm on a new machine and recently installed CC. The problem is Windows Explorer any indesign.indd file is missing the Indesign Icon, instead showing a generic white document. Files for all the other Adobe apps are fine. I've tried:

Re-associating .indd files with something else and then back to InDesign
Uninstall / reinstall InDesign
Delete the windows icon cache "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\IconCache.db"
Renaming "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Shell\CC.2022\icons.dll (& idicons.dll) to icons.dll.bak etc. But can't seem to find an alternative version to replace them with and it didn't make any difference anyway.

Any ideas? This is annoying because it makes it harder to spot when you're looking for an InDesign file.

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BobLevine

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Andyred3dAuthor

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Thanks for the suggestion. But it didn't work sadly. My registry entries didn't look the same as the one's Anshul shows, as I had a = InDesign.exe, plus the others two I'd tried, b = acrobat, c = notepad etc. Then MRUList = abc (i.e. look for InDesign first). As there was nothing else to try I deleted a, b, c and MRUList and restarted. This obviously didn't fix anything, but I then reassoiciated .indd (Open With / Always) to InDesign. Now the registry looks like this:

But still the file icons are blank rectangle for .indd files...

Any other ideas?

BobLevine

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Nope. I gave up.

I'll live with it.

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