Mistaken use of Control-Y (CTRL-Y) to Redo

[scubacat154]

I recently thought that I lost hours of work (in Adobe Illustrator) when I accidentally used control-Y (CTRL-Y) to redo something after I used control-Z (CTRL-Z) to undo a change. When I used control-Y, a white background with only fine outlines of my work remained. After trying to use control-Z (to undo my mistaken use of control-Y), and finding that it did absolutely nothing to resolve the problem, I began to experiment with the remnants of the work.

I selected the entire image (which was only fine lines), used control-C (to copy the selection), then opened a new document and pasted the contents using control-V. Like magic, all of my work was on the new document - details, colors, everything! I can only theorize that the original work was not really lost, only hidden in a way that I was unable to recover on the original document.

Wondering if anyone else has a solution for the mistaken use of control-Y in an Adobe Illustrator document.

[defaultb0sfti1tmatf]

Oh Jesus..it happened to me for the third time when I accidentally changed the keyboard settings while working..thanks for the post! I could manage to get back everything as it was before. 

[Davin26607045m35g]

FIXED: VIEW - PROOF SETUP - INTERNET STANDART RGB (sRGB)

[tipali31327762bwsv]

ctrl y is answer of ctrl y ( outline)

[entroid]

OMG I HAVE THE SAME ISSUE, how can these guys have such a horrific UX? ctrl + y is used pretty much everywere as an undo control but here, itjust messes everything up and does something that no one knows nor wants. Really these guys i feel like i wnt to ill people right now. and don't offer a way to fix it? wtf just happend to my design

[Monika Gause]

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@entroid  schrieb:

OMG I HAVE THE SAME ISSUE, how can these guys have such a horrific UX? ctrl + y is used pretty much everywere as an undo control 

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Everywhere? I'm seeing it used basically nowhere at all. The standard is Ctrl+Z for undo

Are you sure you are not using the wrong keyboard language?

[Doug A Roberts]

Do they mean Ctrl+Y as redo?

[KazVorpal]

He said "an undo control", ergo he was saying it's one of the controls, the one that redoes it, yes.

[KazVorpal]

Yes, Adobe is a huge, soulless corporation whose faceless bureaucrats make these arbitrary decisions, probably by committee, without any consideration for the users.

While I'm so used to Photoshop that I still refer to it when in a hurry, I increasingly use alternatives for my work.

[sharmeen34482305thgx]

Thank you so much. It worked 

[benjiblues]

CTRL+Y is Proof Colors, very top of the View menu.

View > Proof Colors

[Doug A Roberts]

CTRL+Y is Proof Colors, very top of the View menu.

View > Proof Colors

By @benjiblues

Only if you've edited your shortcuts. By default Proof Colours has no shortcut and Ctrl + Y is Outline mode.

[benjiblues]

Ohh! Thanks for the clairification. I was wondering. I must have forgotten that I edited the shortcut.