InDesign file turns into an Illustrator file, and won't open

[sarahs61200845]

Hi There,

I have had this problem a few times, and I'm not sure how to fix it or why it happens.

I was working on an InDesign document yesterday and when I went to open it up today, I noticed its icon on my desktop had switched to an Illustrator icon... and is labeled as such as well. When I double click on the document and tries to open up the document in illustrator... to which I get the message "The file "XXXX" is in an unknown format and cannot be opened." Which, of course, it can't be opened b/c it is actually an InDesign document... And, I can't open from InDesign, b/c InDesign does not recognize it.

HELP!

[sarahs61200845]

I actually opened it up from InDesign by showing "All Files." I'm still not sure why this keeps happening!

[Steve Werner]

It may help to uninstall InDesign (from the CC desktop app) and then reinstall it again to restore the proper desktop icons.

[Test Screen Name]

When you save the file, do you put a dot in the name? If so, don't.

[jane-e]

What is the name of the file, including the extension? Are you on Mac or Windows?

[sarahs61200845]

More fun for me with my adobe apps. I updated my apps yesterday (photoshop, illustrator, indesign, XD) and all of my illustrator documents are showing up as XD documents now. I am able to open them up by right clicking on the in the finder and using the "open with" command to open them correctly in illustrator. Once I do that, I must "save as" an illustrator file.

Unfortunately, I am still having problems with these "converted" illustrator files. For instance, when I try to "export" as jpeg using artboards... I get more illustrator files!!! not jpegs... and the illustrator files are just a picture of the artboard, with no layers.

So, now, not only will I need to open every XD document on my computer and revert it back to an illustrator document, I am still not guaranteed that these new illustrator files will even behave properly and as expected.

Has anyone had these problems? And can ANYONE at adobe help me?

I am on Windows!

[Test Screen Name]

Whatever weird thing has happened to your computer, I suggest you give up on both double click and right click open, and instead use File > Open in the right app.