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GET RID OF THE REVERT HOTKEY!

The hot key for Revert is WAY too similar to the hot key for Save As in Photoshop and I lost an entire day fo work saving after finishing a project. The fact that that can happen accidentally, even with the approval button is INFURIATING!

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Started  ·  AdminVarun Sharma (Sr Product Manager, Adobe Illustrator) responded  · 

Hi Everyone,

We have started working on this request. This was only a Mac-related issue where the shortcut got changed. We are setting it back to F12. We are not removing this shortcut, because a lot if users do use this shortcut. If you want to remove it, or change it to even more obscure key, you can do it as per your liking by editing the shortcut.

Please refer this link to know how to customize keyboard shortcuts: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/illustrator/using/customizing-keyboard-shortcuts.html#Definenewkeyboardshortcuts

Thanks,

Varun

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  • Doug Roberts commented  ·   ·  Report

    I would be interested to hear from the users that do use this shortcut. If there are a lot of them, I would have expected them to comment at least one of the numerous occasions this is brought up.

  • ANONYMOSU commented  ·   ·  Report

    this is such a harmful stupid shortcut I lost a 4 hours work for such a simple mistake as pressing F 12 instead of delete. why the **** does this command still exist , and the fact that it's undoable makes this command 10000 times more stupid …. I just disabled it but I hope what happened to me wont happen to someone else

  • [Deleted User] commented  ·   ·  Report

    I have no idea WTF happened!! The revert is set to F12, I was about to save my project, and i'm almost certain i pressed ctrl+s for SAVE, and my project got reverted ...WTF ADOBE ??? I lost probably 2 hr of work, i don't see any other shortcut that reverts the project that's close to ctrll+s , F12 is literally 15cm away so i call this a program bug!! So sad I didn't realize what happened....I was raging like for 10mins and this for so much cash ... if i see the programmer that did this...

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Why isn't there an option to undo this? That is the ridiculous part. At least this revert option should offer a pop up that allows you to save as copy before revert.

  • Fede commented  ·   ·  Report

    Just lost 4 hours of work, i have more than 20 years of experience with AI and never happened to me before. Why you have this revert feature ? does anybody use it in the history of Adobe ? Have you receive someone suggestion that states "revert is so USEFUL" for they pipeline ? I want his name and address!

    We dont have shortcut for no break in InDesign, why to put a shortcut for revert in Illustrator. This is nuts.

  • Kimie commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is the worst UX I experienced in illustrator, as I lost a half of my day worth of work. I am glad to hear they are moving it somewhere else.

  • Sarah commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is a ridiculous feature. I just lost a whole day of work to this.

  • Rose O commented  ·   ·  Report

    How is this even a thing?! Also this same command is the "Toggle Last Action" hotkey in Photoshop, which only adds to the confusion for those of us who use both softwares frequently. Awful!!!

  • Olivia commented  ·   ·  Report

    WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS??? No way to undo it?? WHY WHY WHY WHY

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Having a hot key similar to the undo is bad UI design.

    Having the okay as the default choice for revert (destroy everything) is absolutely bad UI design!!!

  • shanee apelker commented  ·   ·  Report

    just Lost 5 Hours of Work because of this revert. my dead Line is today. i just can´t believe this. makes me Wanna run Back to Drawing in PROCREATE.

  • Jeffrey Gilbert commented  ·   ·  Report

    Extremely harmful and reckless. How can't this have 5 pages of impacted people on the adobe forums and still be an issue a full year and a half after this request was filed to remove the offending issue. This is unacceptable.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    GET RID OF IT.
    ITS NUTS.
    25 YEARS ON MACS AND I'M STILL DISCOVERING HOW STUPID ADOBE CAN BE.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Its really disgusting!!!! I wasted too much time loosing my work. But why include this feature?????

    SOLUTION

    Go to Edit, Keyboard shortcuts, Menu commands, Search for revert , disable and rename.
    Me i put NEVER. then click o.k.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Is that a change in CC version? Stupid.. I also lost 3 hours and now trying to get rid of hot key

  • Jordan M commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hi!

    I found a way to get rid of it!

    Choose Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts > Menu commands > {search} Revert

    Then change it to something random!

    hope this helps

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