Missing a Modal Pop up
Dear Adobe...
If I spend time organizing my art and putting it onto multiple layers and contains HUNDREDS of pieces, when I make a masking layer you take my artwork and smash it all into one layer WITHOUT popping a modal saying this will smash it all into one layer and waste a day of your life having to re-organize it into layers again because a stakeholder requested edits...You failed me. Bad Adobe BAD.
Please fix this, it's really not cool. When I think of all the hours of my life that you have wasted on things like this over the last 18 years it's pretty upsetting. I am sure it adds up to a couple of months of lost time at this point. I could have spent that with my kids instead.
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Christopher Clinton commented
I am unclear on what your process is, is it something like this: https://tinytutorials.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/adobe-illustrator-clipping-masking-across-multiple-objects/