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Illustrator 2020 issues duplicating artboard

Community Beginner ,
Nov 08, 2019 Nov 08, 2019

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Illustrator seems to be having difficulty duplicating artboards with "Move/Copy Artwork with Artboard" selected while using Alt+dragging the target artboard. This issue only arose after upgrading to Illustrator 2020. I made sure scratch disks were set up properly, so I doubt this is a hardware issue. Is anyone else experiencing this? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

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New Here , Feb 19, 2021 Feb 19, 2021

After dragging, release the mouse first before Alt button

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Community Beginner , Aug 17, 2022 Aug 17, 2022

Just here to say, I had the same problem. And the solutions provided here didn't really help. Eventually I figured out, in my case, it was because I had a clipping mask in the artboard I tried to duplicate. Once I released the clipping mask, it worked with no problem. 

 

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Community Expert ,
Nov 08, 2019 Nov 08, 2019

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is there any locked object in the artboard?

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Community Beginner ,
Nov 12, 2019 Nov 12, 2019

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Hi Mohammad, no there aren't any locked objects on the artboard. The programs seems to be trying to duplicate the artboard along with the art objects, but it ends up hanging instead. Granted, this project has some more dense images included (and I'm sure that's the issue), but previous versions of AI haven't had a problem with similarly composed projects.

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Community Beginner ,
Nov 11, 2019 Nov 11, 2019

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Yes. I have never had an issue duplicating artboards until today.  No layers, nothing locked, following the same procedure as always, and the artboard is blank. Nothing copies over. 

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LEGEND ,
Nov 12, 2019 Nov 12, 2019

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Can you please detail wich version and OS are you using?

Click again twice the Move/CopyArtwork with Artboard, just to be sure. Thanks.

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Community Beginner ,
Nov 12, 2019 Nov 12, 2019

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Thanks Federico,

 

I just tried again after a fresh bootup, deselected then selected Move/Copy Artwork per your instructions, and AI failed to move and duplicate as before.

 

I am using version 24.0 on 64-bit Windows 10

 

My system info here


 

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Community Beginner ,
Nov 12, 2019 Nov 12, 2019

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Thanks Federico!

 

I should have updated. I found the solution in another thread. There is a tiny button in the contexual toolbar that turns on/off the "include content with artboard when duplicating".

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New Here ,
Apr 01, 2020 Apr 01, 2020

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I came to this thread because I have the same or similar issue. I HAVE selected the artboard icon as shown above in PJ_88's post, but my artboards do not copy at all when I select Option/drag. It just moves the old artboard. I restarted, I have the most updated version. What am I missing? 

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Community Beginner ,
Apr 01, 2020 Apr 01, 2020

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Hello - I understand the frustration. That was the trick that worked for me. I assume you have all layers and objects unlocked?  If nothing is locked, and the "copy artboard" icon is selected, I am out of ideas. 😞

I hope someone else has a trick that solves it! 

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Community Beginner ,
Aug 23, 2021 Aug 23, 2021

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Hello, Thank you! I was having this same issue! There are SO many updates to this version, why hasn't illustrator pointed them out!? Things that used to take seconds are taking 30 minutes because I have to find solves to them that are nowhere to find.

so happy to have this forum!

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New Here ,
Apr 15, 2020 Apr 15, 2020

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same issue here (macOS Mojave, illustrator 2020). did you solve it somehow? Thank you

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LEGEND ,
Apr 15, 2020 Apr 15, 2020

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Update to latest version of Ai available. Thanks.

24.1.1 or later

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New Here ,
Apr 15, 2020 Apr 15, 2020

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I have the latest version of AI.

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New Here ,
Apr 15, 2020 Apr 15, 2020

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in the 2019  version it was working well. It doesn't work now

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Contributor ,
Aug 24, 2020 Aug 24, 2020

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So how was this issue fixed?

 

I'm having this issue — trying to duplicate artboard but Option dragging only starts a new Artboard area, not duplicating the selected Artboard.

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Participant ,
Feb 17, 2021 Feb 17, 2021

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I am having the same issue here.  It's worked as expected for years and now it doesn't.  Using the newest version.  Infact I was having the issue last week and just updated today but it still doesn't work.  

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Community Expert ,
Feb 17, 2021 Feb 17, 2021

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Same issue as what?

Please describe, not a lot of people will want to read the complete thread.

 

Exactly what are you doing?

In exactly which version?

With exactly which kind of artwork?

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Participant ,
Feb 18, 2021 Feb 18, 2021

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The newest version .  25.2.  I am trying to like I have done for years to simple Click while holding down Option and dragging to Duplicate an artboard with the contents included.  I have the "Move/Copy Artwork with Artboard" option slected as well.  In the past this was one of those things we ALL just did without thinking about it.  It is not working like it has in the past.  

 

For the kind of artwork I have a mixture of vector and raster graphics.  

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New Here ,
Feb 19, 2021 Feb 19, 2021

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After dragging, release the mouse first before Alt button

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Participant ,
Feb 19, 2021 Feb 19, 2021

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Uh....that worked!!!  Thanks Cohen.  Please tell me this is a new thing and that I'm not loosing my mind???

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New Here ,
May 14, 2021 May 14, 2021

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Thank you! Waste an hour trying to figure this out.

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Community Beginner ,
Aug 16, 2021 Aug 16, 2021

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@Cohen Angu - genius!! That is the only thing that worked - finally!!

 

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New Here ,
Sep 10, 2021 Sep 10, 2021

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OH MY GOD THANK YOU!!!

 

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New Here ,
Nov 07, 2021 Nov 07, 2021

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Cohen, yes! This worked!! Thank you!!

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New Here ,
Nov 11, 2021 Nov 11, 2021

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YES - omg how frustrating this has been for me too, and it was such a simple fix. Thank you!

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