Artboards name disappear or change back after renaming (often when pasted)
After renaming an artboard in the panel, it will return to it's default name eg. , Artboard [x], instead of maintaining the new name.
AI version: 22.0.1

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Anonymous commented
Here's a video showing this happen on 29 May 2023.
First artboard reverts back to previous name. This happens without fail every time!This is a fresh install of Illustrator too, on MacOS Ventura 13.2.1
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Steve, how do you 'rename all artboard at once'? You mean consecutively, one by one?
Can you reproduce this behaviour exactly, if you try to do it from from the scratch? If yes — please provide a video demo and the exact steps. -
Steve Teodosoio commented
Still a problem and has been for a few years now. If you rename all your artboards at once, your first artboard will revert back to the original name when you go to export your file.
The past few years, my work around for this is rename all your artboards, then go back to the first artboard, click to rename it, delete any letter, then add it back on.
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Anonymous commented
I've emailed support several times.
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Matt Frederick commented
Don't know if anyone is really reading these, the other related thread looks to have been closed yesterday.
I've had this happening all week and realized it was happening to the artboard names I had copied to paste and edit on the next artboard..I stopped copying the name and started just typing each artboards name and this behavior seems to have stopped. Definitely a bug of some sort that copying the name is occasionally causing this.
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Matt Frederick commented
Artboards are renaming themselves back to their original names. This happens sometimes several minutes after they've been named and seem to correspond to copy/paste from other AI files.
This has been mildly troublesome in the past, but now its getting in the way of a project. Multiple AI docs, each with 30-50 artboards.
AI 27.5
MacOS 12.6.1
MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2021), M1Max, 32GB Ram -
Matt Frederick commented
Happens with multiple artboard documents routinely. For certain projects I may have 100 or more artboards in a single file and they're named properly. It is a bad user experience to have to rename artboards that were just renamed. B
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Anonymous commented
Still an issue
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Anonymous commented
May 2023 - still an issue
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Anonymous commented
Still happening. Video attached showing shoddy behaviour from AI
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Brendan Ginsburg commented
Artboard name reverts back to previous name after renaming it
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Aleksei Koren commented
It seems if you open Artboard Options and change the name there, it doesn't happen. But it definitely happens when you double click on the name of the artboard to rename it.
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Aleksei Koren commented
Working on a document with multiple artboards. After renaming several dartboards, their naming returns back to what it was before I renamed them.
I need the artboards to have specific names for exporting to SVG. So this is really frustrating. -
George commented
July 2022 and the problem of not keeping artboard names still exists. It's been a few years now. Very annoying.
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Horyzont Pracownia Projektowa commented
Instead of saving th file using CTRL + S as standard, you should create a new file or overwrite it by selecting the "SHIFT+CTRL+S" option.
After reopening this file, the problem will be gone. -
Anonymous commented
When renaming artboards, I often see the first artboard revert to its original title. The first artboard labelled 'Zere' was renamed to 'O2' like all the other artboards, but reverted once I got to the end...
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Anonymous commented
I emailed Adobe support using the email provided above and have offered my computer to test so this ticket should be re-opened if it hasn't been already
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Anonymous commented
This is supposed to be in Illustrator (Desktop)
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Anonymous commented
I have this happen as well. Also, sometimes Art-board names disappear entirely.
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Frank Lee commented
Artboard names constantly delete itself. Sometime when I named 20 dartboards and saved it, AI suddenly deleted all these names after I save it.