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I can no longer copy artboards in illustrator

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
October 28, 2017
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I can usually select the artboard, hold ALT, and then simply drag it over to make a copy of the artboard and contents, but today all the sudden this does not work in any of my files. Now when I try to do the same thing it just gives me a blank artboard without the contents. Any ideas how to fix it?

Thanks!

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Alluring_Eclipse01AC

Participating Frequently

I just had this issue. Could copy artboards, but the content wouldn't follow...

I deleted my preferences file from the preferences main menu. Restarted. Worked like it should again.

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Befu

Participant

How did you delete your preference file? I'm on a windows computer currently, I feel like I could find this easier when I was on my Mac! Thanks!

Monika Gause

Community Expert

Rather than deleting it, rename the preferences folder.

Can be found in the following location: http://vektorgarten.de/illustrator-settings.html

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TKAMDAL

Known Participant

Iam experiencing the same issue.
Did you ever manage to figure out a solution for this?

gtk123Author

Participant

Very odd but it just started working again the next day. Possibly just

opening and closing the program or shutting down computer helped?

Monika Gause

Community Expert

Click the button "Move artwork with artboard"

gtk123Author

Participant

This option was already selected

AshutoshChaturvedi

Legend

gtk123 Please contact Adobe support. Since this is not reproducible at our end we can only guess the reason. Adobe support will be able to look into your machine and look for possibilities like corrupt preference, interference from some third party plugin etc

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