: Bounding-box suddenly way too wide & off-center I've been working in an illustrator file for some time now, but today, all of a sudden, all instances of a symbol I've made are 16k pixels wide

I've been working in an illustrator file for some time now, but today, all of a sudden, all instances of a symbol I've made are 16k pixels wide (img below).

The objects don't appear that large, but when I click them, the bounding box extends far off-screen to the left and right.

What could cause this? I was editing a symbol when it started happening, but I didn't do anything differently than I've done 100 times before.

(edit: forgot to include this behavior)
When switching to outline mode, there are two long horizontal lines I can't explain. They aren't guides, and they aren't selectable (all objects are unlocked).

ETA again: I tried copying into new file, no change. In case anyone's curious, I've uploaded the file in question to Google drive. Well, it's 2 files:

The one tagged [fresh-file] is a new file w/ the objects-in-question copied/pasted in.
The other file is the original file, just with extraneous (and problem-free) objects deleted

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@Murray976

(I did not examine your file. Random downloads from unknown sources aren't really great.)

I think this is a bug in symbols.

I have a particular symbol that does this as well.

The only solution I've found is to double-click the offending symbol in the Symbol Panel, to enter symbol editing mode, then exit symbol editing mode -- BAM it's fixed.

I've been unable to determine what causes this bug. As I've posted, I have a document with about 30 symbols... only one of them acts this way every time I open the file or copy the symbol to another file and it's not due to any superfluous artwork or guide.

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@Nimeshi706

After see your file I figured it out:

There is a huge guide inside the Symbol.

Edit that symbols and clear the guide.

Imagem below:

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@Kevin459

As this is one of the first search results for this problem...

Go to Object → Transform → Reset Bounding Box

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