"Can't make a group of objects that are within different groups"

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February 12, 2020
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The error message when I try to group all the orange vector shapes together. WHAT DO I DO?

When I try to group them all together.

I image traced the image

Correct answer Disposition_Dev

be careful. Jacob's suggestion of ungrouping COULD be destructive and you might not even notice.. it would probably be fine in this specific instance, but in other situations this strategy could mess up the artwork.

I've gotten into the habit of just cutting and pasting the artwork in place, then grouping.

cmd/ctrl + x

cmd/ctrl + shift + v

cmd/ctrl + g

Peter Villevoye

Community Expert

Next time, when you use the Image Trace feature, deselect the recently added "Group automatically" option. This will try to let parts cleverly belong to certain groups, i.e. have the mouth, ears, and nose, separately grouped, on top of a solid underlying black shape. So some red parts might belong to the one group, and others to another...

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FION MOI LAI 24699175epfi

Participant

I hope I'm not too late to the party but.... here's a solution.

Make sure to unhide all the hidden layers first then you'll be able to group them. Hope this helps!

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matju040

Participant

Hi! Did you solve this problem becuase I am having the exakt same issue? I have removed all groups and this message still shows up. I am a total beginner so I have no idea what to do.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

Open the layers panel and check the structure of your file.

Disposition_Dev

Correct answer

Community Expert

be careful. Jacob's suggestion of ungrouping COULD be destructive and you might not even notice.. it would probably be fine in this specific instance, but in other situations this strategy could mess up the artwork.

I've gotten into the habit of just cutting and pasting the artwork in place, then grouping.

cmd/ctrl + x

cmd/ctrl + shift + v

cmd/ctrl + g