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tonymungiguerra18123787
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March 28, 2022
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Properties panel stops changing with selection

  • March 28, 2022
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I love the properties panel, I use it constantly. Lately I've noticed that sometimes the panel will stop changing its content with different selections. It displays the default "nothing selected" content and doesn't change when I select something. I have to restart the app to fix it but it keeps happening. I'm on windows 10 and I use the astute graphics plugins.

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    tonymungiguerra18123787Author
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    April 4, 2022

    Never mind, resetting preferences didn't solve it. Or if it did, it did so temporarily. 

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      Kuttyjoe
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      March 9, 2023

      I'm having this same problem.  In my history with Illustrator, I've never used the Properties Panel but in the last week, I ended up with a smaller monitor, and I'm no longer able to fit all of the panels I need to see on the screen, so I finally turned to the properties panel which is definitely inadequate. Anyway, I'm having this problem constantly.  I select an object and find that the properties panel is showing the document properties rather than the properties of the object I have selected.  It doesn't matter what kind of object I select.  I'm using Windows 11, Illustrator 27.2.  I think in my first 25 years with Illustrator, I probably almost never found a reason to report bugs, but in the last 5 years or so, I find lots and lots of bugs. Some of them get fixed and some don't.

       

       

        michelew83603738
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        michelew83603738Community Expert
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        March 9, 2023

        Upvote the problem. I can't recreate it as I am not on a PC, but hopefully they will fix this bug.

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        tonymungiguerra18123787Author
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        March 31, 2022

        I reset my preferences. It seems to have fixed the issue thus far.

        michelew83603738
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        michelew83603738Community Expert
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        March 28, 2022

        I can't recreate the problem. It looks like you have expanded a brush stroke. Is that the only time that this is happening? Can you tell us about the platform - OS, CC version, etc. Have you tried restarting your computer?

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        tonymungiguerra18123787Author
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        March 28, 2022

        This is an ongoing but intermittant issue. I have the current Illustrator update. As per my post I'm using windows 10 and I have to restart the application every time it happens.

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        tonymungiguerra18123787Author
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        March 28, 2022

        Also, the brush stroke is live. It doesn't just happen when selecting brush strokes. It's like the properties panel, and only the properties panel, is frozen.

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