Odd Behavior? Trash Those Preferences

[DarkAngel]

Adobe Illustrator CS4 Tip - Odd Behavior? Trash Those Preferences

I got an email from Layers Tips reader Ruk Peterson, with a question about some Illustrator features acting very oddly. He wrote, "When I draw a simple ellipse, then go to Object>Create Gradient Mesh, there is a window that is supposed to come up showing options for Rows, Columns, Appearance, and Highlights. It comes up on my laptop, but not on my PC. I can't figure out why? Any thoughts?"
 
I answered, "Anytime Illustrator seems to be acting very strangely it's probably a Preferences problem. To create a new Preferences file, do the following. Quit Illustrator and relaunch the application while pressing and holding Option+Command+Shift (Mac) or Alt+Control+Shift (Windows).

This rebuilds the default Preferences, and hopefully the problem will go away." I was pretty sure that 'Trashing Preferences' would solve the problem and had this confirmed when Ruk emailed back, "Fantastic! That did it!"

[thelufias]

LOL.....How odd that the word odd is used on our home here......

[Jherrith]

Yep there be nothing odd going on here ... just move along ... honestly

[thelufias]

Exactly my thoughts.....How odd that we were thinking the same odd thing.......Oddly enough...it fits.....