Selection tool wont scale Illustrator CC

my selection tool wont scale boxes after i have drawn them. Show bounding box is turned on and I have tried to reset AI preferences.
Thanks in advance for your help

dwise,
The are a few more options concerning the Live Rectangle bug. As Monika says, it is limited to the MAC versions starting with 10.7 and 10.8, but not 10.9 (Mavericks) or 10.10 (Yosemite). Hopefully, the bug will be fixed soon.
So a switch to Mavericks or Yosemite with a reinstallation might be the way to solve it here and now.
To get round it in each case, in addition it is possible to Pathfinder>Unite, or to use the Scale Tool.
A more permanent way round that is to create normal old fashioned rectangles, after running the free script created by Pawel, see this thread with download link:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1587587

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