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Andyred3d
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February 25, 2022
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Indesign Explorer File Icon MISSING

  • 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:

  1. Re-associating .indd files with something else and then back to InDesign
  2. Uninstall / reinstall InDesign
  3. Delete the windows icon cache "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\IconCache.db"
  4. 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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BobLevineCommunity Expert
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February 26, 2022

Solved: Missing File Icon for InDesign 2021 after installi... - Adobe Support Community - 11840815

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Andyred3dAuthor
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February 26, 2022

Also I don't have a registry entry for .idml only .indd

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Andyred3dAuthor
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February 28, 2022

@Andyred3d No reg entry for .idml? In Windows Settings, under "Choose default apps by file type," if you scroll down to .idml, what does it show? Can you open and save an .idml document successfully with InDesign?

 

 

 


Well this is the weird thing. I swear that .idml wasn't in the list... But now when I look it is. I wonder if by checking the file association, it caused Windows to create the registry entry.

So the other odd thing is it does know that .idml is associated with InDesign...

But this isn't in the registry entry (which just has the blank "Default" key):

 

This is also the same for Photoshop. And even stranger there isn't an entry for .AI, although both .PSD's and .AI's show the correct file icons.

 

I don't know if this is relevant, but this is brand new computer (I have installed Illustrator but I haven't opened an .AI file yet) and is running Windows 11 (build 22000.527).

I wonder if Windows 11 handles this is in a slightly different way, that these file associations are stored in a different bit of the registry?

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