Alt + click on layer mask not working/enabled

Im wondering if anyone else has come across this problem and managed to solve the issue!
Basically, when I go to view the layer mask by holding alt and clicking on the layer mask it doesn't function. Along with this problem, when I go to toggle my adjustment layers on and off, by holding alt and clicking on the eye symbol next to the background layer... again this doesn't work.
Im not sure if I have accidently clicked on something that has disabled these functions or its just a bug.
Please, can anyone help with this?
Thanks
Dave

Yeah I tried both Alt keys, that wasn't the problem. I could use both Alt keys to do shortcuts and they worked, just didn't work when it came to toggling off and on the adjustment layers and also viewing my mask, when Alt clicking on it.
I even tried opening the file in an older version of photoshop and still had the same problem.
I was about to re-install the program or reset it back to its default settings... then decided to do a selection of the image, cut it out and pasted it into a new document and then dragged my adjusment layers over to the new file. Hey presto! the functions worked.
Think it was just a case of the image or file in general becoming corrupt or just having some sort of bug.

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