Adobe Illustrator - Corrupt Illustrator Icons

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Corrupt Illustrator Icons

Fungusized

2007-02-15, 10:14 pm

I have illustrator 9.02 (no comments, I'm going to upgrade to Illy CS2
probably later this year when I can afford to), but the illustrator file
icons (ai) have become corrupt. I can't seem to fix this, no matter what
I do. I tried going into the file types and manually changing the icon
to a static icon, but nothing. I repaired the icon cache using Tweak UI,
nothing. I even reinstalled the 9.02 update, again, nothing.

Help/suggestions? TIA!

inez

2007-02-15, 10:14 pm

On 2/15/07 7:07 PM, Fungusized commented:

> I have illustrator 9.02 (no comments, I'm going to upgrade to Illy CS2
> probably later this year when I can afford to), but the illustrator file
> icons (ai) have become corrupt. I can't seem to fix this, no matter what
> I do. I tried going into the file types and manually changing the icon
> to a static icon, but nothing. I repaired the icon cache using Tweak UI,
> nothing. I even reinstalled the 9.02 update, again, nothing.
>
> Help/suggestions? TIA!

Mac or PC?

Fungusized

2007-02-16, 3:14 am

inez wrote:
> On 2/15/07 7:07 PM, Fungusized commented:
>
>
> Mac or PC?
>

PC

steggy

2007-02-16, 6:14 pm

Fungusized wrote:
> inez wrote:
>
> PC

Mac or PC: trash the Prefences.

Fungusized

2007-02-16, 6:14 pm

steggy wrote:
> Fungusized wrote:
>
>
> Mac or PC: trash the Prefences.

It didn't do anything. To be honest, why would trashing the preferences
alter how the file icon was displayed in explorer itself?

steggy

2007-02-17, 6:14 am

Fungusized wrote:
> steggy wrote:
>
>
> It didn't do anything. To be honest, why would trashing the preferences
> alter how the file icon was displayed in explorer itself?

Dunno but it often works. When there are Icon problems on
the Mac rebuilding the Desktop can help.

Fungusized

2007-02-17, 10:14 pm

steggy wrote:

> Dunno but it often works. When there are Icon problems on the Mac
> rebuilding the Desktop can help.

I agree, trashing the prefs is usually the best solution for Adobe
products, but it wasn't the desktop that was the problem. All folder
views in explorer show the default windows icon (the cheesy one that
windows defaults to when it doesn't know what type of file, or can't
find the icon for the file).

I do appreciate the help/suggestion though.

If worse comes to worse, I'm going to uninstall and reinstall it. My
thought is that it *may* have had something to do with Office 2007
(historically, for me anyway, Office has to be installed before
Illustrator, otherwise Office mucks around with Illustrator for some
reason).

Hank

2007-02-25, 6:14 pm

Fungusized wrote:
> steggy wrote:
>
>
> I agree, trashing the prefs is usually the best solution for Adobe
> products, but it wasn't the desktop that was the problem. All folder
> views in explorer show the default windows icon (the cheesy one that
> windows defaults to when it doesn't know what type of file, or can't
> find the icon for the file).
>
> I do appreciate the help/suggestion though.
>
> If worse comes to worse, I'm going to uninstall and reinstall it. My
> thought is that it *may* have had something to do with Office 2007
> (historically, for me anyway, Office has to be installed before
> Illustrator, otherwise Office mucks around with Illustrator for some
> reason).

How about getting "Properties" for any Illustrator file (by right
clicking on the icon)and clicking the "change" button next to "opens
with", selecting Illustrator as the default program and checking the
"always use the selected program" checkbox? I've never had that problem
on a PC but the equivalent procedure solves the problem on Mac.

Fungusized

2007-02-25, 10:14 pm

Hank wrote:
> Fungusized wrote:
>
> How about getting "Properties" for any Illustrator file (by right
> clicking on the icon)and clicking the "change" button next to "opens
> with", selecting Illustrator as the default program and checking the
> "always use the selected program" checkbox? I've never had that problem
> on a PC but the equivalent procedure solves the problem on Mac.

Did that too :(

The odd thing is, I installed a trial version of the newer version, and
now the icons work, BUT, it's still set by default, to open in
Illustrator 9 (the full version I actually own). So, while it may take
up some hd space, I figure I'll leave it as is for now, until I fully
upgrade to CS2 later this year.