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kpolus
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December 18, 2016
Question

Duplicating artboard removes its guides [bug?]

  • December 18, 2016
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Not always, but very often.

When I duplicate an artboard that's full of guides that I decorated it with, with the love level of decorating a christmas tree, it gets emptied. Like eggnog. And not only that, because it's a gift that keeps on giving.

Scenarios, where:

Artboard A = the source with guides (and layers full of beauty and deeper meaning of course)

Artboard B = the duplicate

Scenario 1:

- Artboard A is selected

- ctrl + j shortcut is activated (also this sentence is spoken out loud, just to be sure)

- Artboard B is created next to it (so far so good)

- Artboard B is full of proper guides

- Artboard A has no guides anymore

Scenario 2:

- Artboart A is selected

- I'm holding alt while moving Artboard A down in Layers Panel

- Artboard B is selected

- All the guides disappear, like they were Copperfield's train

Scenario 3 - The wacky adventure:

- Artboard A is selected, but there are also artboards Z, Y, X and the one that's vegetarian, present

- I'm holding alt while moving Artboard A

- Artboard B is created somewhere underneath

- Now the big finalle: All the guides form Artboard A are moved about 1366px (so the artboard's size) right. Those are outside the Artboard. TADAAA!

Windows 10 (the one after anniversary drinking update or whatever it was called)

Photoshop CC 2017.0.1

Is this the real bug? Is this just fantasy?

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    davescm
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    December 18, 2016

    Hi

    I have just tried your scenarios here CC2017 - Windows 10

    Scenario 1

    After duplicating the Artboard - the guides have been duplicated on Artboard B and are not visible on Artboard A. However if I click on Artboard A in the layers panel - the guides reappear on Artboard A and are switched of on Artboard B.

    This looks like intended behaviour - the guides are visible on the selected artboard.

    Scenario 2

    I did see something strange here in that  the horizontal guides went with one copy and the vertical guides stayed with the other

    Scenario 3

    I could not reproduce this. Again if I select any of the artboards in the layers panel - the guides for that artboard become visible

    Dave

    kpolus
    kpolusAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    December 18, 2016

    Scenario 1

    After duplicating the Artboard - the guides have been duplicated on Artboard B and are not visible on Artboard A. However if I click on Artboard A in the layers panel - the guides reappear on Artboard A and are switched of on Artboard B.

    This looks like intended behaviour - the guides are visible on the selected artboard.

    Yes, it suppose to work as you describe. But in my case (as I said, not always, but often) the guides on Artboard A are no more with us. Those are not hidden, those are not unselected, there is no way to see them, to turn them on again. It's not the problem of using the software but definietely automate deleting something that was there before

    Scenario 2

    I did see something strange here in that  the horizontal guides went with one copy and the vertical guides stayed with the other

    I forgot this also happens sometimes. Work full of surprises <3

    Scenario 3

    I could not reproduce this. Again if I select any of the artboards in the layers panel - the guides for that artboard become visible

    Again - the reason for this post is not the frustration of a person who has no idea what just happened. My problem is - the things that I described shouldn't happen at all, but they do, randomly. If your answer is "you don't know how to look for things that are there" it's because you apparently are not experiencing the same issues And yes, I tried turning it off and on again

    I cannot reproduce my own scenarios every time. There's something wrong, I know the area, I don't know how to pin-point that.

    davescm
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    December 18, 2016

    Hi

    I'm not suggesting that you are not seeing something real - just that I could not reproduce it .

    You can raise a bug at any time at the link below :

    Photoshop Family Customer Community

    However it would be helpful to Adobe if we could identify the circumstances that cause it. Usually with software things that at first sight appear to be random do follow a set of circumstances. If I see it happen at any time I'll post back.

    Dave