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Feb 13, 2018 11:13 AM UTC
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Lost my layers within my timeline

Hi There, I'm very very new to Animate. I've managed to make a neat and simple animation, I published the animation and just before I saved I must have clicked or pushed something and I can't see my layers within my timeline anymore. They're all gone and when I press 'play' nothing happens....

Is there anyway to get this back?

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Community Expert
Feb 13, 2018 3:42 PM UTC

Sounds like you were inside a symbol instance (Edit Symbol). Double clicking outside of the symbol art when inside a symbol's timeline will bring you back to the parent timeline. This is a very very cool feature of Animate CC - every symbol has it's own timeline. It's like subsequences in Premiere Pro.

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Inspiring
Feb 13, 2018 11:25 AM UTC

How about trying to change the workspace

windows>click any workspace that you didn't use yet. It should restart everything, but you have to change it to fit your stile again

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Participating Frequently
Sep 24, 2023 8:40 PM UTC

going to post this in case someone is here and overlooked the very obvious like i did: try clicking the "View all layers" icon right below the word Timeline, it looks like a stack of layers - dah 

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Inspiring
Feb 13, 2018 11:17 AM UTC

Go to windows>timeline turn it off and turn it on again. Does it fix the problem?

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janbragAuthor
Participant
Feb 13, 2018 11:22 AM UTC

Unfortunately not

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