Illustrator CC tool pallets disappearing

Yes, and it's driving me bonkers!

Not sure what has happened all of a sudden. I started noticing this behavior about a week or so ago, before the most recent update from a day or two ago (and the update didn't fix it).

One minute, I'll have a file open and the palettes/panels/whatever will all be there, then I'll quit Illustrator. The next time I need to edit the same file, I'll double-click the file's icon in the Finder, and it'll open minus the palettes on the right side of the screen (layers, colors, etc.). The toolbar on the left is pretty much always there, it's just all those right-side panels that keep randomly disappearing (I never close them, and my Pantone color palettes, for example, are set to "Persistent," so those should *always* be there).

For me, it might be time for a rebuild of the preferences file, since I haven't done that in a while. Not sure if you've already tried this or not...?

Have you contacted Adobe about this problem? Any response?

I've been having this same problem! I've had CC for a month now and didn't see this problem until maybe a week ago. Quitting and restarting only sometimes works. Switching to different workspace presets brings palettes back. The Layers palette often bugs out too.

For supposedly being the future, Yosemite and CC are pretty lame.

I'm having a similar issue in Illy CC 18.1.1.

It's only the Printing and Proofing workspace although that's the only one I have open most times. Resetting workspace brings them back up but it's annoying!

Also having this problem, not sure if it's Yosemite or CC.

MBP Mid 2014

2.5GHZ Intel Core i7

16MB Ram

Running Yosemite 10.10.2

All CC apps up to date.

Resetting the Illustrator preferences only seems to work for a little while and then the issue returns. Not a long-term solution.

Yes I am getting increasingly annoyed with Adobe - too many bugs to mention. I keep getting the missing toolbars issue, as well as constant crashes and other glitches. And they have us over a barrel with their subscription based payment system - not a happy customer!

Thanks cpage!

I have downloaded Affinity and will give it a go, though I am still stuffed because I use Photoshop, Indesign and After Effects on a daily basis. I remember when I used to use Quark Xpress religiously and they developed a greedy streak a mile wide and it gave me great pleasure to move over to Indesign and watch the Quark empire crumble away. Yet Adobe now have a real stranglehold on us, as do apple. Give me a PMT camera, some cow gum and a drawing board any day! Adobe a forcing this suite of tools on us, god knows how many applications are available through creative cloud, but I neither want them or need and I do not wish to pay for them either, quantity is not what we require, I would sooner have quality, but that is clearly not Adobe's priority.

Agreed though, competition is the only thing these people understand, but when there is no competition .....

Reckon I need to fulfill my dream of becoming a sculptor!

Thanks again

Phil

I have found what seems to be some kind of fix for this problem after it driving me absolutely mad! I simply went to the Window menu and turned Application Frame on. This way no matter what palettes are on in my workspace a bunch of palettes appear as a part of the interface.

Not sure this will help others but it has allowed to me contunue without having to reinstall Illustrator.

Dreadful problem Adobe!

Thanks! This helped me. I turned Application frame ON and then OFF again, and my tools are all back 🙂 Better than nothing. I still hope Adobe will fix this though, along with all the other really annoying bugs.