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After Effects Stuck Off Screen

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March 7, 2018
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I opened After Effects on my 15 inch macbook pro, and the only part of the application window I can see the very bottom. I can't work in it, and I can't even find the options to resize the window. It's just stuck off screen.

The only solution I found is to System Preferences > Displays > Scaled... Then I choose another size text and if I go smaller it's fully on screen but obviously much bigger text and less work area. Please help.

Correct answer uedvincent

I figure it out, When it happened, just hold option key and double click bottom-edge of the window, it should works.

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nmpetro

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I just went through this, and didn't see the Shift+Option... I'll try that next time it will assuredly happen. What did work (with dual monitors), is switching the "home" monitor. From there, AE moved the entire workspace to the other monitor, which fit in the monitor perfectly, so I scaled the window down, dragged it back to the other monitor. Now when I moved the "home" monitor back, the smaller scale workspace could be dragged back into position. A bit of a PITA, but it worked.

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yuhkio65010515

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Thanks so much!

Mo Moolla

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If you experience this again theres a really simple fix.

Go to: Window-->Workspaces-->Reset current workspace

AE will will then automatically resize everything you your monitors native resolution

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sharchi

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Thank you for the suggestion Mo. That would be great, however at least in the current release, there is no "Reset Current Workspace" option that I can find. (Please see attached). Noting here that the Reset "Standard" to Saved Layout option does not help.

Mo Moolla

Brainiac

Hi

Reset Standard to saved should work unless you had made changes to it.

if it doesn’t the best way forward would be to reset your preferences

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sharchi

Participating Frequently

I had this same problem this morning. The Option + Shift and drag window approach worked... but only just.

I can't believe it's 2019 and we have to deal with stuff like this from Adobe / Apple. Not expecting a fix anytime soon unfortunately

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a noori

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Let me be express my frustration in a very accurate way.

I give adobe ONE year to deal with this issue! If it's not solved by then, I end my subscription. It's only with adobe now I'm facing this issue. If you want to keep milking my money out of me, deal with this issue Adobe.

I have enough skills and experience to replace your software and convince my clients replacing with another software.

It's shame, don't you think, specially when such issues that should be not a problem has a column on your forum??? 2 JAN 2019

david seay productions

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There are two buttons at the bottom of the graph window. One has a horizontal single wavy line, the other has two horizontal wavy lines. These are the "fit selection to view" and "fit all graphs to view" buttons. This will take the entire data field and shrink it down to the size of your viewing window. Hope this helps you.

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Whispering_future5C3F

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I tried that and all it did was make the screen so small that I can no longer access it at all. Adobe's updates keep getting worse and worse.

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Manolo Soler Llorca

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Lifesaver! Thank You.

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NedkoGeorgijew

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Lifesaver! Thank You.

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tomm69936774

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Is there a file somewhere on my computer that I can just delete that will reset my workspace and force my computer to forget I was previously using a bunch of large monitors?