I have to say since Adobe went into the cloud the products have been rubbish!!! Constant issues with their programs crashing or loosing data. If we have an Adobe app open it runs sooooo slow it's a joke. Go back to allowing s to have the software on our machines. It just worked

Sorry if this is obvious but this happens to me when I have finished a document and then move/clean up desk top of delete the original images. If you open with google chrome though they are still there. I'd love to know a way of solving this, as I don't want to keep all of the original images once the artwork is done.

Same issue happening with me, plus I can't share the AID files as Windows won't let me add to zip, copy/paste or attach directly (see attached pic).

Just has a support rep spend an hour troubleshooting through all the steps I'd already described as having done. This issue has caused so much wasted time for what looks like quite a few people.

HOT TIP - UPDATE!
I have an Adobe Illustrator file where my embedded layers have disappeared. I decided to abandon Illustrator and use Affinity Designer - It opened my Illustrator file and ALL the layers were there, including the missing embedded files.
So, to reitterate, if you have an Illustrator file where your embedded layers are missing and you have no oither way of reinstating them, simlpy open the document using Affinity Designer.

24th May 2021. Embedded images are missing inside my Illustrator files. I placed the images into a layer and hit the EMBED option. I've come back a week later to use the illustrator file and the embedded images are missing.

This just happened to me too! Any updates please?

same problem still keeps happening. MacOS 11.3. Pasted images are gone after an unexpected crash. Left only a blank frame of each image, or can say the images turn into completely transparent.

I have Adobe Illustrator version 25.0.1

I am having the same problem, after crash, recovery file opened but all linked images are missing and embedded.

Embedded images came without names so I have to wast more than an hour to get them one by one.

it is a big problem, recovery file is useless, I better save manually every 5 minutes than going thru this headache.

Was this resolved? I am having the same issue. Every time lI try to embed an image, it disappears.

I was able to recover the images by creating a new layer and then dragging the "invisible" images to the new layer by selecting them in the layout, and moving them up using the layers palette. Worked for me.

Has anyone had a solution provided for this issue???

Hello,

I am having similar issue. How do i resolve it? I have a huge file and lost many pictures. Its about 40 hours of work. Please help

This just happens to me, I am just about to go to print the doc. Now everything is gone, it's 50 pages with lost of images. I spend 5 days to do it. And we have no solution?

Why was this ticket closed. Was the solution fixed elsewhere?

Raghuveer is there a solution?

I have the exact sample issue.

this happends to me and it's horrible we need a response!!!

happened to me, the solution I found was opening the images in photoshop and dragging the to illustrator. that fixed my problem. Hope this helps

this should not be closed. I've seen it mentioned in several other places throughout this forum. consolidating them to one suggestion would reflect the actual support for this issue. It happens to every image in a file that has been recovered. Having to go through a file that has a lot of different images that have been replaced with black boxes is extraordinarily time consuming, frustrating, and confusing. Especially since you embed images to avoid things like this in the first place...

I am having the same issue.