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Spacebar not working as quick Pan / Hand tool

Spacebar has stopped working as hand tool as of 2018 update.

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    same here. nothing got it back, then i accidentally press a combination of buttons to initiate siri popup. i closed the pop up and the hand showed back. Not sure if there's something to do with system shortcuts interfering with app keys usage.

  • Jomy commented  ·   ·  Report

    I found a workaround in Photoshop. Go to the Photoshop/Preferences/General. Click on "Enable Flick Panning". Just toggle that on and off. Fixed the problem for me.

  • ed commented  ·   ·  Report

    fix it in photoshop too while ur at it!!!!

  • ed commented  ·   ·  Report

    they really ********* with this one--slows work to a crawl!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Guys, If you have any browsers (Safari,Chrome) open, just quit them whilst keeping illustrator open. It worked for me.

  • vijay verma commented  ·   ·  Report

    After 2019 update, space bar not working for quick hand

  • Diego commented  ·   ·  Report

    Adobe please fix this and give all the creators our spacebar-hand tool back again!!!

  • LarkSL commented  ·   ·  Report

    I am in the Photoshop CC 20.0.0 release and can not get my space bad to work as shortcut to the hand tool. Alienware 17 r4 computer. No webroot on my laptop. Please advise solutions. Thank you.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    IS THIS FIXED OR NOT??? NOT WORKING FOR ME

  • Peggy commented  ·   ·  Report

    THANK YOU -- PERSON WHO RECOMMENDED HOLDING DOWN THE SPACE BAR! This worked for me. I had have this problem off and on (1 day out of 30) for the past year (all of 2018), and then after 2 days, or 2 hours, or some other random time period had passed, the grabber/space bar function would work again.
    But I just restarted my machine (holding down the space bar until the apple logo appeared) and my space bar is back in business! HOORAY!!!!! (AND THANKS AGAIN! :)

  • fart commented  ·   ·  Report

    FIX THIS ADOBE, OR YOU SUCK!

  • Nate commented  ·   ·  Report

    So F-ing annoying!

  • Nate commented  ·   ·  Report

    What the actual **** is wrong with Adobe making such stupid decisions? Jeez, so ******* annoying.

  • JUSTIN commented  ·   ·  Report

    WHY THE **** DID THEY REMOVE THAT SHORTCUT?!!!

  • Amrol commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please can you fix the Spacebar issue, normally it works as the Hand Tool! I tried to add this manually via
    Edit > Keyboard shortcuts, but wont allow me to add the spacebar function.

  • Mike Slebodnik commented  ·   ·  Report

    Found that I had an unfamiliar utility running in the far right of my dock (forget the name, btu it started after I upgraded to Mojave). I quit it and the spacebar came back instantly.

  • Alejandro commented  ·   ·  Report

    What the **** adobe? Bring back the hand tool/spacebar feature please

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