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Pasted artwork does not remember sublayers

When pasting artwork from one file to another with matching layer and sub-layer names, Illustrator will not remember sub layers and pasted artwork has to be re-sorted in to sub layers.

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Under Review  ·  Anish Kumar responded  · 

Hi All,

Thanks for reporting this issue and sorry for the inconvenience caused. We are able to reproduce this issue at our end and it is currently under review.

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Anish Kumar
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  • MC commented  ·   ·  Report

    Anonymous commented "The odd thing is, it does not happen all the time and I can't figure out any common cause. It should just work."

    Pasting will fail to properly recognize sub-layers if there are any empty layers - or layers with only guides - within those sub-layers. The work-around that usually works for us is to first run this script:
    https://aiscripts.com/delete-empty-layers-script/
    and then do the copy>paste.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    If it's been under review for over a year, why isn't it fixed? The odd thing is, it does not happen all the time and I can't figure out any common cause. It should just work.

  • MC commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is a really bad bug that totally messes up our workflow. Adobe, please fix already!

  • Ru Chou commented  ·   ·  Report

    I am having this issue also. Mac OS Catalina. Illustrator v. 23.1.1

  • Mike Norris commented  ·   ·  Report

    v23.0.4 -- paste does not remember layers
    and some but not all area text behaves like point text, e.g. moving a text box corner handle distorts the type

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    This problem only occurs if you copy only some of your objects in the sublayers. If you copy everything in your sublayers, it retains the layer structure. Annoying, but it is possible to retain sublayers... but Adobe should stilll make it so it always remembers the sublayer structure.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yep. But with 5 votes it will never be changed. Adobe is driven by user demand not logical functionality.

  • john frith commented  ·   ·  Report

    I agree Rob, why wouldn't it remember sub-layers as well? I have found this extremely annoying for some time now. Please fix it Adobe!

  • Subutai Ahmad commented  ·   ·  Report

    I have the same problem, even if "Paste remembers layers" is turned on.

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