Duplication Occurs on Locked Layers | Photoshop (25.5.1)

I think it is super annoying. Ic have locked a few background layers and now I am working on a pattern consisting of severlad 'flimsy' shapes that I need to auto select to move them around to create a pattern, but they are hard to grab and I constantly mess up the background. would love to be able to change that in the preferences...

I encounter this issue daily so I hope it gets resolved. I alt-click-drag to duplicate and work with lots of layers, so this is extremely annoying. It's hard to believe this multibillion dollar company can't fix simple and obvious problems like this. I wish they'd listen to their customers and put more money into identifying and fixing issues like this.

This is still bugged!

I also have this problem and it is very annoying. I would love it locking layers disabled alt-click selection. Or if they are hell bent on keeping it, you could allow selection with alt-click, but implement a feature where after starting normal drag, if you hold alt it will switch to copy. This keeps best of both worlds.

Try grouping the layers that you want to Alt-click on. Or.. having the ones that you don't want to duplicate on a separate layer. Annoying, I know but this is is how I got around it when my locked guide layer kept duplicating. 

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