InDesign Not Opening

InDesign will not open. It was working fine yesterday and now I can't even open it. All of my indd. documents have renamed as illustrator docs. and come up with an error.

Hi Jo,
I think you have changed the default application in which your file should open. Please right click the file and check "Opens with:" field. If InDesign is not listed here, please browse and choose InDesign as the default application. Let me know if your problem got resolved or not.
Regards,
Pooja

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