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November 22, 2010
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Cannot select or deselect objects in Fireworks CS5

  • November 22, 2010
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I cannot seem to select or deselect objects in fireworks by clicking on them. I have to click and drag in order to select an object and click and drag to deselect. Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong or how I can fix this? Thanks.

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      FIXED....

      Its Spotify.... Close it and try again.. Worked for me....

      Grrrrr... I blame Xmas and all the offices for having music on.

      51 replies

      ripefruited
      ripefruited
      Participant
      November 14, 2016

      Having read 99 posts that experience the same issue: cannot select a tool in CS5 (crop tool) in my case,  the fix is always other software that has been recently installed or updated.

      In my case, I had installed Plustek OpticPro A360 scanner software the day before.  I uninstalled it, rebooted my PC (W10) and voila, Fireworks operates perfectly again.

      Moral of the story: think back to software you have recently added/updated.

      Have fun!

      gregorym80249639
      gregorym80249639
      Participant
      March 17, 2016

      Same issue here...resolved it when I quit Kodi.

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      focusbox11
      Participant
      December 19, 2015

      This old trick still works today! I had to close another similar app QQ Music to get Fireworks to behave. Weird.

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      eduardostuart
      Participant
      November 13, 2015

      Same here. Can't select nothing (I don't have Google Music Extension installed).

      OSX - EL Captain - 10.11.1

      Google Chrome - 46.0.2490.86 (64-bit)

      Adobe Fireworks CS6 - 12.0.0.236

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      rashcom5000
      Participant
      September 3, 2015

      More specifically (thanks to Herbert2001) my culprit was the Google Music extension in Chrome. Magic...gone wrong.

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      rashcom5000
      Participant
      August 31, 2015

      I, too, had this totally problem with Fireworks CS6. My culprit was simply Google Chrome. It did not matter what was actually open in Chrome -- without ANY tabs open, I cannot directly click to select in Fireworks CS6. When I quit Chrome, I can immediately go back to business as usual and click to select. I still love Fireworks BTW.

      Herbert2001
      Herbert2001
      Inspiring
      August 31, 2015

      Check your plugins: some users have encountered the same issue with audio player plugins which they had installed in Chrome, and when they deactivated/uninstalled these, Fireworks would not have any issues anymore.

        dotj92649857
        dotj92649857
        Participant
        August 6, 2015

        Yip, it was Spotify! Thanks.

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        mashook_talpur
        Participant
        July 1, 2015

        Oh man...this took me all day figuring out whats wrong with Fireworks and keep restarting my Mac many times.

        Finally when googled, this answer tried and it worked.

        Huh! this is crap man, why spotify is creating problem here.

        jmbehrens
        jmbehrens
        Participant
        April 22, 2015

        You are a lifesaver.. how the heck did you figure this out?! (And why is it happening.. and why is Adobe the worst?)

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        pauvavrova
        Participant
        April 14, 2015

        How is this even possible? The issue is couple of years old and no one has done anything about it since!

        I've never had this problem with Fireworks CS6 before, but I've just switch from Win8.1 to Mac OSX and it appears. So now what?

        Shall I abandon Fireworks or Spotify?

        Herbert2001
        Herbert2001
        Inspiring
        April 14, 2015

        The reason this is possible is simple: Adobe stopped development and support for Fireworks since May 2013 - two years ago now. By that time FW CS6 was a year old, and came out before the new versions of Mac OSX. It is to be expected that older applications may run into compatibility issues when upgrading to a newer OS.

        It is not only the fault of Fireworks, however. The latest two Mac OSX versions have been riddled with bugs and problems for many Mac users (one merely has to visit the macrumor forums). Mac OS is no longer the main focus of Apple, unfortunately.

        Be it as it may, Fireworks is a dead application, and if anything, at some point you will have to jump ship anyway to alternative applications.

        jmbehrens
        jmbehrens
        Participant
        April 22, 2015

        Frankly if its a dead application they should stop selling it.

        Then again there are a lot of things dead about Adobe that they still sell, so, par for the course I guess.

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