Paths and objects not selecting properly

[tomh40451014]

I have a weird problem I've never encountered on AI before. I've been working on a file for a while, and suddenly today it started not behaving properly when selecting any element.

Basically if I click on a path it doesn't then retain the selection, it only shows the bounding box. Normally it shows the path I have selected with the bounding box. Similarly if I click any object or type, it only shows the bounding box and not the path or type.

It's driving me nuts - I don't know if it's glitching or if I tapped something by mistake? If I copy the entire artboard into a new file everything works fine, so I guess it's not too much of an issue. It just seems to be this one particular file at the moment. Anyone else experienced this?

[Kurt Gold · Accepted solution]

Does View > Show Edges help?

[Bill Silbert]

The keyboard command for the View>Show Edges that Kurt suggest is Command (Mac)/Control (PC)-H. It's possible to accidentally hit that command when you meant to hit another causing your issue. The Show/Hide Edges command is document specific which would explain why you can see the selection in another document but not in the original.

[tomh40451014]

Thanks so much to you both - that did the trick perfectly. I couldn’t for the life of me figure it out but now I’ll know in future!