Missing Default Swatches from Fill/Stroke Setting

[clarkg]

I recently made two changes:

1. I updated Illustrator to the most recent version.

2. I moved my design files to an external SSD drive.

When I open any Illustrator file that was created prior to these changes, the default swatches are missing. All these files were created by selecting File > New, and used to contain the default swatches. Any new file I create now has the default swatches as usual.

Yes, I can add the default swatches from the Swatches pallette and set it as Persistant. However, it's a pain that they are still missing from the Fill/Stroke settings at the top/left.

I have tried uninstalling/installing Illustrator using the Creative Cloud app and making sure it deleted preferences as well.

Any suggestions?

[Ton Frederiks]

Are the swatches the only things that are missing?

Are the layers still there, brushes, symbols?

[clarkg]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I went looking for Ai files that I know contain layers, and yes all the layers are there. So are the default swatches in those files.  I am now second guessing myself and perhaps some of my files were not in fact created using File>New. I need to do a little more investigating here.