Outline view shows boxes around my motifs.

As far as I can see, Monika already gave the right answer, you used a pattern swatch that looked like a color swatch.

When you fill a rectangle with a color and drag that rectangle to the Swatches panel, it will create a Pattern swatch that looks like a Color swatch.

The rectangles you see in your file are expanded green colored pattern swatches. If you delete them it will create holes in your drawing where they were used.

What you could do to get rid of them is Select All and click Divide in the Pathfinder panel. (In the image: left before, right after Divide)

You may want to combine fills on the leaves at the lower left that shows the division caused by the Pattern rectangles.

Hi @Becki253164398spb,

Sorry to hear about the trouble you are facing. I would suggest cleaning up the file. Select all > Path > Clean up.

I hope this helps!

Regards,

Anshul Saini

Do you still know how you created it? What is in this artwork?

Can we also see how it looks in preview and in the layers panel?

If they don't have any color, you could select one, choose: Select > Same > Fill & Stroke and delete them.