elements are unexpectedly grouped in Illustrator CS3

[extradifficult]

Items seem to suddenly become grouped in documents. Select one item and various other items get selected also. Sometimes they are items that have been copied. Other times everything is grouped. This becomes very inconvenient when I zoom in and adjust something or delete something and later find that other things have moved to the wrong place or are gone. I suspect this has something to do with "contamination" by the existence of other CSs (CS2, CS4, CS5). Does anyone experience this? Does anyone know why? Is there a way to control it other than to constantly keep aware of the possibility of it's happening?

 

[apepp]

Illy does have it's bugs, try deleting preferences files for illustrator and relaunch illustrator.


andrew

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[extradifficult]

Thanks, i'm giving this a try now. I haven't noticed the problem yet but if it is still there, it should start turning up soon. I'll let you know.

 

[apepp]

...I do notice it myself when using the black arrow select tool sometimes, it is a bug though in the program...when it happens I find that doing a select all, then deselect all gets me back to proper selecting...your symptoms sound similar, I still get this in CS 5 having noticed it in CS4, can't remember CS3 or CS 2 doing it though, long time a go, I'm sure Cs4 was when I first noticed the selection annoyance though.

andrew

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[extradifficult]

sometimes many ungroupings are necessary or copy & pasting or moving to another layer and back help, but on occasions i've had to give up and just accept it. i wish the problem would just go away. i've suspected that it came about in my CS3 (ccompany is uppgrading very slowly) when we started getting outside CS4 and or 5 files to work with.