Problems with saving InDesign as indd

[strindl]

Hi all,

I've been experiencing problems with ordinary saving files from InDesign. I haven't worked with the program in a while so it's possbile that I'm missing something super obvious but googling didn't help me, so I'm asking the community instead ... whenever I save an InDesign document it's automatically converted to pdf. It's still shown as "name.indd" in the InDesign program but when I view it in the folder it's a pdf. Now I don't have any problems opening those pdf files in InDesign (where they will be shown as indd again ...) but I would prefer them to be shown as indd files in my folders as well.

Does anyone know what could be wrong and how I might be able to fix this issue?

Thank you!

[Eugene Tyson · Accepted solution]

Your file associations are wrong in Windows or on the Mac - not clear which you're using. 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-ie/help/4028161/windows-10-change-default-programs

https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/how-to-manage-file-associations-in-macos/

[strindl]

super, thank you! that did the trick.