Transform needs me to zoom in or out.

[AntoniaAgain]

Hi all, I work with multilayer files and use transform many times per file. It has always worked perfectly. Now, I check the 'show transform' box but no bounding shows. Same for if I go to Edit >Free transform. However, if I check the show transform box then zoom in or out, it shows, and I can make my transform, but can't get rid of the bounding if I want to then resize something else. So I have to zoom in or out again. This is very time consuming, not to mention annoying, when it has always worked perfectly. I have closed out PS, updated, rebooted, turned cartwheels, but nothing helps.  Upon typing this, I went back to a file and now I can't even see the bounding when I zoom or zoom out.  I have opened other files and same with them.  I am leaving the first part of this saga here in case it gives someone a clue. TIA

[Michael Bullo]

If Photoshop is acting weird and inconsistently, a reset of the Preferences is often a good fix. In the General tab of the Photoshop Preferences is the Reset Preferences On Quit button.

[AntoniaAgain]

UPDATE:  Nothing worked, so I called the fine folk at Adobe, who lost the call after 20 minutes. The second fellow I spoke to, Pushpendra, was brilliant and, after screen-sharing for a very long time, resetting the prefs, and trying various other things - same old, same old. So he decided to try the latest version (which I have) on his PC. (I have a Mac.) Blessedly, the transform box wouldn't work for him either although, as with me, it worked if you zoomed in or out after trying to check it. So 22.4.2 appears to have a transform bug. He installed an earlier version and all is well again.

[jane-e]

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@AntoniaAgain wrote:

So 22.4.2 appears to have a transform bug. He installed an earlier version and all is well again.

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Hi Antonia,

I'm glad things are working for you now. PS 22.4.2 was released today. What version were you using when you posted three days ago on 5 June 2021?

Also, do you know what version he installed that is working for you? (Photoshop menu > About)

~ Jane

[AntoniaAgain]

Ah OK so it was the one before 22.3.1 is what he installed and said to not go beyond this one without first checking with Adobe. He tried out a couple of versions after this so I am assuming they didn't work either. I wasn't watching him as I had to take a phonecall. 

[AntoniaAgain]

Yikes, let me retype that. It makes no sense.  I don't know what version I was using other than it was later than the 22.3.1 that he installed.