Lost my layers within my timeline

[janbrag]

Hi There, I'm very very new to Animate. I've managed to make a neat and simple animation, I published the animation and just before I saved I must have clicked or pushed something and I can't see my layers within my timeline anymore. They're all gone and when I press 'play' nothing happens....

Is there anyway to get this back?

[Moses_Chief]

Go to windows>timeline turn it off and turn it on again. Does it fix the problem?

[janbrag]

Unfortunately not

[janbrag]

Worked it out. Just to had to double click my canvas, I must've clicked off the side into the 'grey' area. Thanks for all the help in any case!

[_keyframer · Accepted solution]

Sounds like you were inside a symbol instance (Edit Symbol). Double clicking outside of the symbol art when inside a symbol's timeline will bring you back to the parent timeline. This is a very very cool feature of Animate CC - every symbol has it's own timeline. It's like subsequences in Premiere Pro.

[Moses_Chief]

How about trying to change the workspace

windows>click any workspace that you didn't use yet. It should restart everything, but you have to change it to fit your stile again

[jodisinatra]

going to post this in case someone is here and overlooked the very obvious like i did: try clicking the "View all layers" icon right below the word Timeline, it looks like a stack of layers - dah