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Warboys
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December 11, 2013
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Can't select or deselect in Fireworks CS6 (Mac version)

  • December 11, 2013
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Hey guys,

So for most of the day everything was working fine, then suddenly I can't select or deselect items. Well, technically I can by DRAGGING as I select (which is very inconvenient) but there's no work around for editing text (which requires a double-click on the object).

It sounds exactly the same as this bug posted for Fireworks CS5;

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/755820

Now, I have Spotify installed but I've restarted without it running and yesterday there were no problems with Fireworks at all... so I doubt it's Spotify related. Everything else sounds the same though.

I've restarted, un-installed and reinstalled the program and closed all media programs I can see. Still broken. Quite possibly something else is interfering with it but I have no idea what (since I haven't installed anything new)

This is preventing me from finishing a pretty important piece of work, so I'd REALLY appreciate a response.

Thanks guys

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    RFC-Coveo
    Participant
    September 8, 2014

    Same problem but with Google Music instead of Spotify.

    mrswarboys
    mrswarboys
    Participant
    August 26, 2014

    Hey, it's me again! Warboys!

    I've got this error again. My Mac was wiped (left my company) and I just reinstalled everything.

    When Spotify and Fireworks are open, I can't select objects by clicking. When Spotify is closed, it's fine.

    Unfortunately, the solution I posted above has stopped working this time around.

    Any ideas?

      milly2v
      milly2v
      Participant
      August 26, 2014

      Having EXACTLY the same issue. Uninstalled and reinstalled both Fireworks and Spotify - no success!

      So frustrating, I can't seem to focus without Spotify playing!

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      Cynomyso
      Participant
      January 10, 2014

      I was seeing the same thing and after going through Activity Monitor and quitting one thing after another I found my problem was being caused by AirServer. It must have been an update they pushed out as I've had that installed for a long time and not had the problem. I confirmed this by taking AirServer out of my startup items and rebooting the machine and Fireworks still worked as it should. Very happy to have things back to normal.

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      supergirl85
      Participant
      August 29, 2014

      This worked! Thanks a lot!

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      dannychang
      Participant
      December 26, 2013

      I got the same problem.  Come on. Adobe.  You got all the money from creative cloud and you are not willing to spend money to make sure your update doesn't break major funtciton?

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      WarboysAuthor
      Participant
      December 12, 2013

      I found the answer... WEIRD BUG.

      It was related to the Properties bar. Any time I was trying to edit/select something aligned in the same vertical space as the properties bar, it didn't work. If I dragged something to the side of the properties bar, it works!

      Here's a picture to explain...

      Glad this is finally fixed (I minimise the bar... a bit of a cheat fix really) but still.. what the hell kind of bug is this? :O

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