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  1. Beachballing for any added effect in Illustrator.

    Any time I add a dropshadow or 3d effect, Illustrator beachballs until I have to restart. I have Mac Mojave 10.14.6. Illustrator 2019. If I use preview it's particularly frustrating.

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  2. Frequent crash, no crash report , sometimes does not generate recovered file

    OS: Windows
    Version: 10.0
    System Architecture: x64
    Built-In Memory: 16207 MB
    Lenovo Yoga 720 151kb
    intel core i7
    Driver[1] Name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
    Driver[1] Driver Version: 23.21.13.9125
    Driver[1] Driver Date: 20180316000000.000000-000
    Driver[1] Adapter RAM: 2048
    Driver[1] PNP DeviceID: PCI

    Illustrator v23.1 (just updated today 10-5-2019, but problem I'm describing was happening with previous version)

    Crashes 3-6 times per day depending on how much time I spend off and on AI. This had been going on as long as I've had this laptop, but some days are better than others. It stops responding and I have to end task via…

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  4. Illustrator 23.1.1 flickering panels on mouse release

    Layers Panel flicker

    After upgrading to Illustrator 23.1.1 on a mac each time a mouse click is released on the artboard or when text will be deleted step by step, the layer panel and some times symbols and type formats panel, too, will flash or flicker.

    Switching off GPU usage does not change it anyway.

    It's driving me crazy...

    This flashing is irritating.

    Attempted fixes

    Resetting preferences
    Adjusting GPU performance
    Turning of animated zoom
    Uninstalling illustrator
    Updating everything

    Illustrator Version 23.1.1
    MacOs Mojave 10.14.6

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  5. Art board freezes, then disappears

    I use a Wacom to draw my art on Adobe Illustrator 2019 cc, 23.0.6 64 Bit. I haven't had any problems drawing, but today I am only able to draw a few items before the art board completely freezes and I can't draw anymore. HOWEVER, when looking at my layers, everything I draw shows up. I just can't see it on the actual art board. The things I was able to draw, I am unable to move or change. Then trying to fix it, the whole art board disappears, but it still says it there on the Layers tab...

    Please…

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  7. Move Space bar

    Moving with pan on space bar glitches into stuck hand closed - won't release until you double click again

    line at 64k has multiple artifacts

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  8. Illustrator 23.0.6 MacOS High Sierra slowdown, possible memory leak.

    I have noticed over the last several versions that if I leave Illustrator running for more than a few days without quitting (with and without any files open), that my system gets less and less responsive, sometimes to the point where it seems completely locked up other than cursor movement. A quick mouse over the Illustrator Icon in the dock shows that the Application is Not Responding. I have also noticed the same thing happens in Photoshop. I'm not sure if there is a memory leak in these apps or in the Creative Cloud Core environment somewhere. I took a…

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  9. Performance is hindered

    Working on illustrator- have it set for 2 hours working time. At 15 minutes, the computer will log me out and force me to log back in to my illustrator file. I use High Sierra OS, Creative Cloud 2019.

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  10. navigator doesnt work

    i`m using latest illustrator build, the navigator panel just doesnt work anymore.

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  11. History

    Is it possible to add History option? Like photoshop...

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  12. Match zoom

    I always toggle 2 files with tool match zoom, but it's not working for CC18, but if I start match zoom option & manually select the second file then its possible

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  13. Ai quits unexpectedly constantly

    working on a new or existing file, Ai unexpectedly quits: on save, quits when i choose "edit link" and quits randomly- no idea why. does not save file at all, as if the file never existed and i need to start from scratch every time, even if i previously saved my work!

    OS: Mojave 10.14.6
    latest Ai cc version

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  14. Random screen lines

    Random lines showing up on screen.
    os 10.14.5
    ai2019

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  15. Embed images disappears/ becomes damaged after illustrator crash.

    It started to happen after I changed to windows 10 and dobe updated the Illustrator version. Prevent this from happening, cause when images are embed I do not have any copies in my computer. They are just there in illustrator and lots of hard work might be lost.

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  16. Ai file really slow

    I'm working on a file which is running very slow but i can't figured out why. I've followed all the steps in the "Performance" thread but it didn get better

    File has a lot of graphics but it seems that the problem isnt my pc, Ram used is only 30% of total Ram

    PC specs:

    i7 5820k

    GTX 980ti

    16 gb RAM

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  17. Constant crashing, lagging, power drain,

    Illustrator is constantly slow, lagging, crashing, unresponsive, and small files are acting like large files. I have been using Illustrator for 8 years, but now, it is affect my ability to do my job. I am so incredibly disappointed with the performance issues, slow response time, and I dread having to use this program now. The CS6 version was WAY better than this.

    Please adobe, for all of your customers, fix what's broken before adding new features, and 16GB of ram is no where near enough to run this program anymore. 32... maybe.

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  18. Serious performance lag on 23.0.6

    Serious performance lag on 23.0.6

    Just updated to 23.0.6 I am on an imac 3.6ghz i9 with 64gb ram. I would click on a block of text and delete - there would be a long pause, beach ball, block deletes, pause, back to work. GPU vs CPU view didn't make a difference. I switched back to 23.0.5 and everything is fine.

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  19. Illustrator is crashing after selecting specific tool

    My GPU and CPU is GTX 750ti and Intel Core i5-7400
    This has been happening for lot of months and I had to move to 2018 version.

    Edit: Ignore the first video called Illustrator CC... (Fail)

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  20. performance lag

    panning around canvas is very slow, not fast as it should be.
    Viewing file in outline line mode and then switching back seems to fix until a new document is opened and then software slows down again.
    Hopefully will be fixed with an update.

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