: Illustrator won't remember layer collapse state Running Illustrator CS5 on Mac OS 10.7 Reopening an Illustrator document expands all layers For files containing a large amount of layers, this is

@Ravi4787994

The issue is with nested layers. If you build clean AI files, you use these a lot. The lack of a preference for this really stinks, but if you're organized with your top level layers it's not too bad.

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@Nimeshi706

It's a consistent issue.

And there is nothing you can do about it. Users have been asking for a fix since..... well.. at least version 10, if not longer.

The simplest workaround is to place all your layers into a new top layer. Then, upon opening a file, you can Option/Alt click that top layer to collapse all internal sub-layers. This workaround has it's benefits and detriments. So it's not perfect.

I just wish they'd get around to fixing it.

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