Not able to flip/rotate text on type path

Same thing happened to me!

The work-around is to take the "old" text on a path, and paste it into the "new" file.

The text remains editable & ALL IS GOOD!

Alan,

Failing everything else (after trying what Pawel said), you may have some kind/degree of file corruption.

If that be the case, you may try to copy and paste the artwork, possibly in groups/bits/whatever to a new document if applicable.

Another thing often tried first is to create a new document and File>Place the (PDF contents, if any, of the) corrupted one to see how much may be rescued that way.

Here are some websites where you can see whether it can rescue the actual file, and if it can, you may pay for a subscription to have it done,

http://www.recoverytoolbox.com/buy_illustrator.html

http://markzware.com/adobe-software/fix-illustrator-file-unknown-error-occurred-pdf2dtp-file-recovery/

http://www.illustrator.fixtoolbox.com/

As far as I remember, the first one is for Win and the second one is for Mac, while the third one should be for both.

Here are a few pages about struggling with it yourself:

http://daxxter.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/how-to-recover-a-corrupted-illustrator-ai-file/

http://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/troubleshoot-damaged-illustrator-files.html

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/500/cpsid_50032.html

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/500/cpsid_50031.html

http://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/enable-content-recovery-mode-illustrator.html

• Be sure you work na targeted layer
• Be sure this layer is unlocked
• Be sure this object is unlocked

And:

Try to use Ctrl(Cmd) + H - Hide Edges command you could hide this handles

Pawel