In My Pictures why the duplicates when highlighted?

[John Brown]

In My Pictures if I highlight a few pics, ready to do whatever with them, I
notice additional copies of the pics are created..why?...and how to stop
this?

 

[Unknown]

How do you highlite a few pictures?

 

[John Brown]

Left mouse click.

How do you highlite a few pictures?

 

[Alan Edwards]

I suspect you are moving the mouse when you left-click and creating
copies. I have a friend who does that often, creating copies of files
and even folders.

....Alan

 

[John Brown]

No...In My Pictures I open a folder in which there are, say 50 pics shown as
thumbnails....
I hold down the Control key and then click the thumbnails one by one...after
I've clicked and highlighted about 4 or 5 thumbnails eg pic1, pic6, pic8,
pic9 etc another 4 or 5 thumbnails appear in the folder entitled copy of
pic1, copy of pic6, copy of pic8, copy of pic9 etc?

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Alan is right, you are moving your mouse sideways unintentionally. Try this,
open a folder, and highlight one file. Press the control key, and then down
arrow twice, Let up ctrl, then press spacebar, then ctrl-down arrow twice,
then let up control, press spacebar. You can do this any number of times
without the copying.

 

[John Brown]

You are correct. When highlighting the files less speedily works just fine.
Many thanks.
J
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