Pasting symbols now creates unique symbols instead of instances of the original symbol
Copy-pasting a symbol--whether individually or by using the paste to all artboards command-- now creates a new symbol instead of creating instances of the original symbol. Alt-dragging the symbol to a new artboard creates a new instance of the original symbol as expected.
This seems to be a new bug, as I can't recall ever having this issue before. Thanks for checking into it!
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Please accept my sincere apology for the inconvenience. Please get in touch with us at any of the other support channels – https://helpx.adobe.com/support.html . Since this is not a generic issue that we can reproduce at our end, we will need someone to look into your machine to figure out what is going on here.
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Eric Bryant
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I am having this same issue
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Alexey Korepov
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"life is pain" © :)
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Ricardo
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it happens all the time... ALL THE TIME.. drag and droping or copy pasting via keyboard. It duplucates the simbol instead of the instance
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Alexey Korepov
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I have same problem with fresh Illustrator version not every time, but randomly very often when copying symbols, here is thread about this: https://forums.adobe.com/message/10543855#10543855
Also here https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2368949 is same bug report.
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Neat
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Update: so it appears the issue is isolated to one specific symbol in the file I'm working with. No idea what could be triggering it. The symbol in question is a header that contains an outlined version of a logo that I converted to a symbol and a dotted line. Nothing too extraordinary about either of them besides the logo symbol having a lot of components because there's a small illustration next to it.