Multiple Selections

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Travis King

In some folders at random, Vista will not allow me to make more than one
file selection at the same time. If for example, I select a file, press and
hold the CTRL key down and select the other file, it won't work. Also, it
does not allow me to drag a selection rectangle to select more than one
file. What's the deal with this? Thanks.
 
I tried copying the problem folder to the desktop. It allows me to select
more than one file on the copy on the desktop, but it won't on the original
folder. It's really annoying.
 
Travis King said:
In some folders at random, Vista will not allow me to make more than one
file selection at the same time. If for example, I select a file, press
and hold the CTRL key down and select the other file, it won't work.
Also, it does not allow me to drag a selection rectangle to select more
than one file. What's the deal with this? Thanks.
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You use the Shift key not the CTRL key and you can select a section. What
are you doing that you cannot do it?
 
You use the Shift key to select multiple adjacent files.

You use the CTRL key to select multiple NON-adjacent files.
 
I already know this. It works on all folders but the one I mentioned.
Did you look at that screenshot showing that folder with the 'select all'
option greyed out? There are a good eight or nine files in there, so why is
select all greyed out? It also won't let me do CTRL to select multiple
random files or SHIFT to do adjacent files. Also, like I already said, it
will not let me draw the selection rectangle to select multiple items
either.
Also, I tried enabling the select files by checkmarks. As soon as I
check a file and go to check another file, the first file I checked becomes
unchecked. It's doing all this behavior within that one folder. Like I
said, the rest of the folders appear to work, but I've run into this problem
before two or three times.

Perhaps my machine is possessed.
 
Sorry, my reply was for Ian's comment on using the Shift key and not the CTRL
key to select multiple files.

I have seen your problem posted before, but unfortunately I do not remember the
resolution.
 
Ian, one uses the Control key to make a random selection of a number of
files; always has been that way!
 
Each individual file is a separate Photoshop Project. I have lots of other
folders that's similar with no problems.
 
Travis King said:
Each individual file is a separate Photoshop Project. I have lots of
other folders that's similar with no problems.
Michael Solomon said:
Travis, are each of these files attached to separate Photoshop projects?
If yes, that might be the issue.
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I'm sure that's true, Travis, but I have seen this behavior with files for
other similar applications. I'm not sure if it's something in the
attributes of the folder or the files but I have seen this before where the
files were from separate projects created within an application. And, as is
the case here, I had other folders with similar files that didn't have the
same problem.

There have been discussions or questions here about desktop.ini and it's
possible that may be a factor as it contains information about various
folder customizations. Not necessarily customizations we make to the folder
but customizations related to the files within as well as possibly relating
to specific applications.

If I had to guess, I'd say that may be what is going on here.
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If you rename the BagMRU and Bags keys under--
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell
(which will reset all your folder settings), does that get this working
again?
 
If you rename the BagMRU and Bags keys under--
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell
(which will reset all your folder settings), does that get this working
again?
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I started getting this problem over the weekend.
Suddenly I couldn't select mutiple files from any directory I had.
Rembered reading about this in this discussion and came looking for a
fix, and I found it.
I did the above, deleted the BAGS and BAGSMRU keys, rebooted and all was
OK.

Thanx for the advice.
 

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