Extendscript toolkit: unable to debug

I was able to debug but then I do not know what happened; now it gives me error message saying

Target Adobe Illustrator CC 2018 provides no engine for debugging.

I tried with InDesign and it gives me same error.

Attached screenshot will show:

Illustrator document is opened.

Target is set in the script.

Illustrator is available in the dropdown of extendscript.

but the link symbol is in gray.

Does anybody know what is going wrong?

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this kind of error happens fairly often. Just restart Illustrator to go back to normal.

by the way, if you pick Illustrator in the "Target Application" dropdown, you don't need to add a "#target" directive

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Thanks for reply.

I restarted Illustrator, ExtendScript and then my machine still no change

about target application: yah that is right; most of the times I forget to pick the application from dropdown so I write it in the script.

And I was just trying all possible ways to make it work

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