All elements disappearing the more I edit. They show in layers panel, but not on artboard or in exports.
I'm working from (an up-to-date version of) an Illustrator file with five differently sized artboards. They all are using the same elements and symbols, just arranged different for different layouts. When I click on one of the artboards and select a group to scale down, the elements begin disappearing and have not reappeared.
I exited the group and more elements in the artboard disappeared. Clicking out of the artboard group itself made the entire group disappear. When I click back into the artboard, selecting an element reveals the outlines and bounding boxes, but the artwork itself is not visible. Opacity shows 100%, and looking in the layers panel reveals that all the elements are still there and the links panel shows no errors.
I've tried exporting the artboards, and the ones that appear blank in the AI file also show up as blank JPGs. I tried copying the elements into a separate file. Same thing. Outlines and bounding boxes appear when selected, but the artwork doesn't show up. I saved the file, closed and reopened. I quit AI, made sure it was up to date, restarted, same problem.
I'd just copy the elements from the still visible artboards and rebuild my design, but editing ANY of the elements from ANY of the artboards causes them to start disappearing.
I'm going crazy, please help!
Angelica Bentley
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This sounds extremely broken! :(
Can you record a video of it, please?
