Adobe Illustrator CC 2020 Documents Turns Blank on macOS

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January 24, 2020
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I'll have one or more Illustrator documents open then suddenly all of the open documents become blank and unrecoverable. No error message appears.

This happens constantly now to the point I'm afraid to even work in Adobe Illustrator.

Adobe Illustrator CC 2020 vers.24.0 on Mac OS X

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Rishabh_Tiwari

Legend

Hi there,

Sorry to hear about the trouble. This is unusual, I would request if you can share a few more details like:

The current version of Illustrator we have is 24.0.3 for macOS so could you please confirm if you have the latest version? If not, I'd recommend updating it to the latest version. Also could you please confirm the exact version of macOS.
Does this happen with specific documents?
Where are the documents saved, locally or on any network or shared drive?
Is there any specific pattern when this happens or it just happens randomly?
After the documents disappear, does the app gets stuck and does it load the documents after some time?

Regards

Rishabh

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1) Adobe Illustrator 24 / Mac OS X 10.15.1

2) It occurs with any document, none specific.

3) Documents saved locally.

4) No pattern, completely random.

5) App does get stuck (toolbar tools inactive) and I have to close Quit.

Rishabh_Tiwari

Legend

Thanks for sharing the details. I would recommend updating the Operating System and Illustrator as the current version of Illustrator 24.0.3 and for macOS, it is 10.15.2. You can also try resetting the preferences for Illustrator by following the steps below:

Close Illustrator.
Click on the Finder icon on the dock, choose Go on the top> Go To Folder.
In the Go To Folder dialog box, type "~/Library". Click Go.
Open the Preferences Folder > rename the Illustrator 24 Settings folder to Illustrator 24 Settings folder.old
Under Preferences, Open Adobe folder and rename Adobe Illustrator folder to Adobe Illustrator.old
Go back to library->open caches->rename com.adobe.illustrator to com.adobe.illustrator.old
Go back to library->open application support-> open adobe->rename the Illustrator 24 folder to Illustrator 24folder.old

Let us know if it works or if you need any further assistance.

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