many nested layers cause instability?

[Mark_W_Sanders@adobeforums.com]

I am working on very complex maps involving hundreds of layers at the top level but probably thousands when you consider the nested ones.

Essentially I am reducing the number of layers at the top level by using the "Collect in New Layer function". As I do this the documents become more unstable, take up to 15 minutes to save and exhibit other strange behaviors.

Has anyone experience this kind of issues with layers?

thanks

Mark

[envelope_the_frontcat@adobeforums.com]

I've seen enough instability with the layers palette over the last three versions that I tend to set them up once and leave them alone.

That doesn't exaclty confirm your problem. But it shows the result of a persistent bug -- many people start avoiding whole sections of the program, afraid they will hit some crash-prone line of code.

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[Gary_Newman@adobeforums.com]

The Layers palette really needs to be improved to work effectively with very complex documents - especially maps. But what you're doing should not be slowing things down the way you describe. Are you saying that if you leave everything as top-level layers, you don't experience the slowdown? The slowdown only happens when you combine layers?

One thing that will help is to turn off the layer preview.