I'm not completely sure if this has just started happening since my very recent upgrade to Mac OS Sierra Version 10.12.1 but I'm pretty sure it has. So, I have a top layer with artwork on (spread over several sublayers), I want to copy elements of this artwork onto another top layer, I select the elements with the selection tool and hit 'Cmd+C', I then lock that top layer and in a new top layer I have created, I 'Cmd+V' or 'Shift+Cmd+V' the selected elements, but instead of pasting onto the only unlocked top layer, I keep getting the error message that says 'You are attempting to paste or drag into one or more layers that are locked or hidden. Do you want to unlock and show all appropriate layers?' This is something that Illustrator has done for many years but only intermittently, and often when this has happened just creating a new top layer rectifies the problem but now it will just not paste into another top layer, it wants to paste back into the locked top layer that the artwork was copied from, EVERY time! If I unlock that top layer, sure enough it pastes right back into that top layer, so I'm having to laboriously select every sublayer I want to copy elements from and drag them all (whilst holding down alt) into another new top layer, this is driving me bananas!! Can anyone help please? I am currently running Illustrator CS6 Version 16.0.5, is it that Adobe are losing interest in helping with bugs like this as they want to encourage people to sign up to Illustrator CC?
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