: How does one reset Illustrator CS6 on Mac? My Illustrator is acting a bit buggy; more precisely, no selection is actually visible. Selected text isn't highlighted, looking for an anchor is like

@Miguel516

Find a thing that says essential it could say automation, or painting, its a set of default workspace settings, just reset essential and it should all be as good as new.

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@Lengel450

View > Show Edges

Just had the same issue and this fixed it.

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@Kristi927

Commmand H for getting edges back

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@Phylliss782

Sounds like you've activated hide edges or hide bounding box -- I can never remember which term applies to which. Take a look in the View menu, the command will have changed to Show ...

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@Caterina889

Hold down Cmd+Option+Shift on launch.
You won't get any dialog or any visible sign prefs have been reset, but they have. The logic is, the AI team felt if you hold those keys down on launch, you know what you are doing and therefore didn't provide any direct feedback.

If you want to manually delete the prefs, you've got the wrong location. You need:
[home folder]/Library/Preferences/Adobe Illustrator CS6/

Depending upon what OS you are running, that Library folder may not be visible. So, choose Go > Go To Folder... from the Finder Menu. Type in ~/Library (that's tilde, forward-slash, Library) and the Library folder should open.

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