I have this exact same problem with Acrobat Pro CS4.

I upgraded from CS1 and now cannot do anything to associate Acrobat with PDF. Driving me freakin' crazy!

From the looks of the posts, may have to uninstall. Hate doing that...unless anyone else has a clue.

Thanks

Sean

Same here - uninstalling CS2 Suite destroyed indd associations - and they could not be reset by Explorer / file types. I had to reinstall CS4 and then it was OK.

Vlad

Same issue.

I finally resorted to uninstalling ALL of CS4 and starting over.

Same deal.

No file association with Acrobat or Illustrator by default.

Using Windows to associate "open with" does not work either.

Acrobat is the painful one because I have to open the application first, THEN drag the file in. Extremely irritating.

Anyone have anything better to do let me know. I was told once I completely uninstalled and reinstalled it would all work out.

Disappointed to say the least.

Sean

Hi folks

I bought an upgrade to CS4 (Design Premium) from CS2, so I assumed I would have to install CS4 before uninstalling CS2 (else it wouldn't recognise the upgrade?)

This then put me in the position of removing CS2 apps post-installation and, from what you guys say, consequently losing the indd file association.

Strangely, Ps, Ai, etc. seemed to retain their associations.

I did try a re-installation/repair but it hasn't cured the problem.

Best I can do is force the association with the "Open Action" but it gives me this sort of "half association" type icon instead of the types that I get with Ps and Ai  i.e.

The other really strange thing, is that none of the CS4 applications appear in the Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs listing ????  Is this normal?

Do I totally uninstall CS4 and try again (bearing in mind I have an upgrade package) ?

Any comment is obviously very welcome.

Cheers

Wow!

You guys are awesome! Thanks for all the postings - and on the same day as I posted.  I'm not used to that sort of service.

Hmm!  As I say, I have already uninstalled CS2 so I think I will take a punt on the old files being not too adversely affected.

I am a tech author and the manuals I prepare are rarely more than 50 or so pages, often less, so I can probably handle any minor changes without too much effort.

I have noticed however, that I do have to re-link a lot of my included image files (mainly EPS). Does anyone else suffer from the same problem?

Thanks for the Vista support posting, by the way, but I am still trailing along in XP Pro (with SP3).  Elementary error.  Should have mentioned that up front.

Have good day, wherever you are.

Cheers

This information was extremely helpful.  You're right,  the quotation marks around the %1 are important.  Without them it just opens the program but not the actual file you clicked on.

I've been trying to figure this problem out for weeks and this solution worked perfectly.

Thanks!

Yes I think at this point it might be best to start off as fresh as possible.  I would find the method of cleaning CS4 and CS2 off the system, you can Google for the proper cleaning method.  I find it best to try and work on a clean slate in regards to the CS4 install.  We had some trouble with a new system for one of our folks so we found that it was easier to re-image the system. 

GoodLuck 

Thank you for the help.

I will keep that in mind in the future. I was following the instructions of one of the managers here (I'm a designer, not an IT person). I think the logic was something like: 1) not sure if my computer could run CS4, so install it without removing CS2 just to be safe. Since CS4 was working fine, then I was told to remove CS2 since I had very very very little space left on the computer. Almost none. Needless to say a new computer is in my future.

So thanks again. When I get to upgrading to CS4 on my home computer, I will be sure to go about it the correct way!

Kristina

PS: You guys are always so quick to reply and very helpful. Appreciate it!

Mr. Grace......THANK YOU!!!!!!

Took a while to find an answer to this problem, so glad you posted this even though a year ago.

~sincerely,

curiousJAY

I have the same problem but reinstalling the software seems like a terribly lame solution to me. There has to be a more straightforward way to solve this, perhaps tempering with the registry. Did anyone happen to solve this problem more efficiently?

Thanks! That worked for me. I'm glad there are people knowledgeable about PCs in the forums!

I got this problem after uninstalling CS4 (thanks, Adobe; love your software, but you need to spend time fixing all these little install/unistall glitches!). I found a solution on some other forum so I thought I'd post it here.

Open the registry editor (type regedit in the Start menu search field) and browse to:

Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\InDesign.exe\shell\open\comman d

(if you have RegeditX (and other non-Windows registry editors, probably) you can copy the address above and paste into its address bar)

Double-click on the entry there and edit the Value data to reflect the full path to your installation of InDesign. In my case:

"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CS5.5\InDesign.exe" "%1"

(Be sure to include the quotes! Also, verify your path by checking in c:\ProgramFiles; should you need to fix this for Illustrator, note that the .exe is a few directories deeper.)

Mine was still showing the path to CS3, and when I tried to use Windows to change the default association to CS5, it never took (until I did this).

I also noticed that Illustrator was still pointing to CS3, but Photoshop was correctly pointing to CS5.

In the interest of full disclosure, I had just deleted all program references for .indd, but that didn't seem to solve the problem until the fix I describe above.

I hope this saves someone some head-banging.