Symbols duplicate when cutting and pasting!!!! Why?

Posted: 06-07-2004, 04:40 PM
Why in the world do symbols get duplicated in the symbols palette when they are cut and pasted in the document? This wrecks havoc with any attempt to maintain a clean set of symbols. This is true in AI 10. I haven't checked in AI11 yet.

Any Adobe apologists who'd like to fill me in on the wisdom of this "feature"?
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Chelan@adobeforums.com
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Re: Symbols duplicate when cut and pasted. Why?
Posted: 06-07-2004, 09:40 PM
I'm not getting duplicates in Illustrator 10.0.3 on OSX.3.3.

Steps to recreate in CMYK doc

1) Drag out the flame symbol
2) Edit cut.
3) Edit paste.

I still only have one flame symbol in the symbols palette.

Trashed your prefs?
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Scott_Weichert@adobeforums.com
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Re: Symbols duplicate when cut and pasted. Why?
Posted: 06-08-2004, 12:55 AM
I'm not getting any duplicates in CS.

RGB and CMYK documents:

draw symbol with symbol tool
copy
paste

no duplicates in the symbol palette.
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Ray_Craighead@adobeforums.com
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Re: Symbols duplicate when cut and pasted. Why?
Posted: 06-08-2004, 03:29 PM
Thank you! Trashing the prefs seems to have fixed the problem for now.

I can't help but wonder why the AI prefs file is so prone to corruption. No other program, that I know of, has this problem on such a consistent basis.

I guess I should just make trashing the prefs a standard daily procedure. Is there any way to retain my setup optons after trashing the prefs? Or must I spend the time re-configuring the palettes, etc., each time?
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Posted: 06-08-2004, 07:21 PM
OK, the fix worked for about an hour. Symbols are once again duplicating themselves when cutting and pasting. FYI… I am using symbols within symbols (i.e., logos on multiple product symbols), and I'm distorting some of the symbols with envelope meshes. I don't know if this is contributing to the problem.

I cannot constantly trash the prefs, then setup my workspace every 1/2 hour. I think this is a bug that Adobe needs to look at. I'll contact them.

Thanks,
Ray
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