[Jeanne Kennedy]

Thank you for your advice! I will try that next time. Meantime, out of desperation I kept trying things and found that if I selected the photo after it was made into a clipping mask and then clicked on “flatten transparency” it seemed to make it stable. At least when I ope the files up again they are still clipped. What a mess! It turned out that it was a problem on just several of the 13 files. Why some would be fine and some wouldn’t is beyond me. I just got this creative cloud version about six months ago and I guess I should upgrade already.