Bounding box disappears while moving objects in Illustrator

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Hi,

I have a problem where the bounding box (blue highlight) disappears, ONLY when moving an object – it's there when I select the object but when I drag it it disappears. This has just started happening and I'm sure I've accidentally hit the wrong keyboard shortcut somewhere along the line but I can't work out how to fix the issue.

Any thoughts much appreciated.

Cheers,

Rob

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paulf40782745Correct answer

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That is called Real Time Drawing & Editing.

The bounding box has been always hidden when moved.

What you probably mean (I guess) is that the object edges are hidden.

Turn off Real Time Drawing & Editing or GPU preview to get the edges back.

Yes, I did indeed mean the object edges

Turning off Real Time Drawing & Editing has got my edges back (which I find useful), Thank You!

villainess

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@Ton Frederiks Thank you for that answer! It's been driving me crazy not to be able to line-up objects, especially on corners.

BTW, the bounding box has NOT always been hidden when moved. The center handles are often used for line-ups in more technical work.

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Animandic

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I don't know why is this marked as Solved, because it isn't.
We still don't have bounding box around the object when we move it.

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Monika Gause

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Turning off the Real time editing doesn't help?

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ViktoriaPat

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It didn't help me at least. 😞

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ViktoriaPat

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Hello everyone!

This exact thing happened to me yesterday all of a sudden. I can't remember what I pushed or what keyboard-combination it could have been, but I can't seem to fix this. I've tried your solutions ofc but none worked for me. Is my file corrupt? I've tried to uninstall/install the whole cloud, same with illustrator (like 2 times). I resetted my settings too. One thing I found out was that the "newer" layers I added to my file were fine (boarding box was there and visible while moving).

Here it works fine: