Inadvertently deleting work by moving out of bounds

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coopchap
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Inadvertently deleting work by moving out of bounds

Postby coopchap » Fri Nov 01, 2024 1:32 am

I have had the extremely frustrating experience of accidentally deleting work by moving it out of the edge of the document on accident. Both times this has happened, I was trying to adjust the origin, and something happened, but all my work got shifted out of bounds. Undo didn't work, so I was forced to restart the past hour's work. Any solutions to this?

Thanks,
Cooper Chapple

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Re: Inadvertently deleting work by moving out of bounds

Postby admin » Fri Nov 01, 2024 11:53 am

Elements moved outside the bounds of the document are not removed, they are just not visible. You can use the Inspector's Document tab to increase the size of the document to reveal any missing elements that are outside the bounds of the document and move them back. (Then you can reset the document size to what it was.)

coopchap
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Re: Inadvertently deleting work by moving out of bounds

Postby coopchap » Fri Nov 01, 2024 6:33 pm

Huh, thanks. I swear I tried to re-expand the document.

Thanks!

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Re: Inadvertently deleting work by moving out of bounds

Postby admin » Fri Nov 01, 2024 11:05 pm

It IS possible to lose objects off the left or top of the document. In that case, just making the document bigger might not work. (It might work if you have "Center origin when resizing" checked in the document size popup.)

What is guaranteed to work is to use the "Match Contents" command from the document size popup. That will set the document size to just big enough to include all visible elements. It does not expand to include objects on layers that are hidden/off. But will expand to objects outside the document bounds.