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Is there a setting somewhere I missed that you have to toggle for a design you spend hours creating and save it just to have none of the settings save???   Brand new to all this and thought it happened on another project, but thought it might be me and now I just spent a couple hours creating a fairly complex design and saved it.  When I reopened all the settings are on default and I now have to waste more products and time trying to figure it all out again.  If studio doesn't save settings, then what's the purpose of using it for creating???