Could Not Find The Application That Created This File

Hello Community,
I have already been to the Acrobat forum with this post and they re-directed me to this forum.
My problem seems to be with a InDesign file that will not export to a PDF, nor can I create the PDF from within Acrobat itself.  BTW I have Acrobat 8.1.6 on a Vista OS.
Here is what I've done thus far:
restarted my computer, which didn't correct anything
printed the InDesign file to the PDF printer unsuccessfully
Checked for InDesign and Acrobat updates and found I'm current with the updates
Please NOTE:  I have no problem with creating a PDF with either a Word or Illustrator file; it's the InDesign file that's giving me a problem.  The message I get when I try to export from within InDesign to a PDF file is "Could not find the application that created this file; please select a file created by an application that resides on your computer."
Please help.  Thank you very much.

Hi John,
Before replying to you, I decided to give it another go.  This time out, I
was finally able to export the InDesign file, which I created, to a PDF.
Hooray!
I have found, in the past, that restarting my computer will clear something
in my system, and then I can create the PDF.  Sometimes this inability to
create a PDF happens in Word.  But this time around it was InDesign that was
the problem file.
Maybe it has something to do with the preferences menu.  I'll have to check
this out.  Otherwise, all is fine.  Thanks for answering.--Pat

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