First thinga first, I'm using Illustrator cs6 installed locally on my desktop. It's a Windows7 machine with 16 GB RAM and a 3.4 GH intel i7 processor.
This is driving me crazy. Illustrator is constantly unable to unlock layers or make visible / invisible. I'm working on an image that has many objects in it with many layers / sublayers. As I'm working on the image I am constantly having to navigate back and forth between the layers turning things on & off. This is of course, a given. What shouldn't be a given, is constantly having to figure out what is locking up my layer or layers keeping me from unlocking it or turning its visibility off or on ... Needless to say, with an image that has 50 or 100 layers / sublayers ?? This can eat up a lot of time from my day and in some / far too many cases, It eats up significant blocks of time wasted on one single move, 5, 10 minutes just trying to turn off or unlock layers that are obscuring my view of a lower layer just so I can work on that lower layer.
Surely there must be some way to stop this from happening or at least finding any and all layers that are locked i.e. sublayers etc, etc... And before anyone suggest this ... "Unlock All" doesn't work so much. In fact it's mostly kind of pointless.
I would think that any software that cost what Illustrator does should work better than this . Either that or I'm missing something stupidly obvious. Surely there must be some way to quickly and simply unlock everything and not have to go digging through dozens and dozens of layers in search of the mystery layer that has everything locked up. That's keeping me from unlocking lower layers.
Can anyone help me with this? What am I missing?
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