Skip to main content
Participant
July 6, 2017
Answered

Selection problem - bug report

  • July 6, 2017
  • 3 replies
  • 722 views

Hello,

For quite some time (years in fact) i often encounter a bug in illustrator.
It became more persistent this days, it happened like  5 times already this morning.

So here is the problem :

Sometimes, my selection tool suddendly have multiple things without me selecting anything. The effect of that is that i can't take a single element, i always have something else in my selection. The only way to counter it is for me to close and re-open the file, wich is kind of boring when you have to do it every 30 minutes.

I took some capture to show you exactly what i mean because it's not easy to describe


For exemple here i only have the upper right element selected, nothing else
And here nothing in my entire scene is selected. Even if i lock all layers it still appears selected.

It's a long time problem, i encounter it since like CS2 or something like that, but it really happens more often this days.
I'm beginning to be very tired of it and, since it's present on multiple devices and multiple versions i'm positively sure that the problem doesn't come from my install

Is there a way to fix it permanently ?

This topic has been closed for replies.
Correct answer c.pfaffenbichler

If you really want to post a Bug Report this is not the correct place, try

Feature Request/Bug Report Form

3 replies

John Mensinger
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 6, 2017

Not solutions necessarily, but perhaps something helpful to be found...

Unwanted bounding box

Illustrator randomly selects unrelated objects

rcraighead
Legend
July 6, 2017

Have you tried typing "Cmd/Cntl-Shift+A" to deselect all when this happens?

Participant
July 11, 2017

As a matter of fact i did.
It works, but not always. What also works is to select al (cmd/ctrl+a) then click in an empty zone (which strangely works better that the deselect all).

It happens often that the only way to fix it is to close the current doc and reopen it.

c.pfaffenbichler
Community Expert
c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
July 6, 2017

If you really want to post a Bug Report this is not the correct place, try

Feature Request/Bug Report Form