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How to set Adobe default for InDesign
- I deleted the new version, then reinstalled it. This time when the default apps window came up, the newest version was showing. So I was able to select it as default and it seems to hold.
Something must have happened in the first install that did not allow it to be seen as a possible default.
Yes this is what I have done. When I get to step 4, I go and find the latest version, click on it. The screen says Open With. But then it goes back to the Default screen where the old version is shown. I never get a button to say Always Use This Version. It just goes round and round.
- I deleted the new version, then reinstalled it. This time when the default apps window came up, the newest version was showing. So I was able to select it as default and it seems to hold.
Something must have happened in the first install that did not allow it to be seen as a possible default.I am experiencing the same issue. I suppose this happens because the old and the new Indesign apps have the same name, "InDesign.exe". So Windows thinks you still choose the same app for opening your file, therefore not showing the new app in your application list and thus using the old version. Maybe, Adobe should consider using different names for their new executables. I tried to change the new Adobe Indesign executable and hooray, Windows accepted it. Unfortunately Adobe was not able to open the application this time because of the faulty new name I gave it. 🙂
- So what I did:
1. changed the executable name of the old "InDesign.exe" to "InDesign23.exe"
2. changed the default to the new InDesign.exe (2024 in my case)
3. went back to the old "InDesign23.exe" and changed the name to "InDesign.exe" again
Now Windows changed the default to the 2024 folder 🙂
