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Cannot select or deselect objects in Fireworks CS5

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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.

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The Pza

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OMG WTF!!! I closed Spotify and it worked!

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jamesc669762

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No way it was spotify for me as well! thought i was going mad when it started! Made me upgrade to 6 as well to see if that helped!

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swisstonii

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Yes you're right it IS Spotify! Me too....son of a b....

How the hell did you figure that one out?

sean_melchionda

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My colleague and I are having the same issue. Closed Spotify and the issue is gone. WTF?????

SEan

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focusbox11

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It's life dude. :-) I don't think Adobe will ever fix it. It's called DIY LOL.

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rch_nash

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It sounds like Spotify (and every other application that uses the media keys) is just working around a bug that exists within Fireworks (or the OS?) by explicitly turning off that functionality when Fireworks is running. Given that it's been several years now, I'm not entirely optimistic... but is there any possibility this will be fixed?

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shaffly

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Four years later, and I started having trouble...and sure enough...Spotify. Crazy it's still an issue all these many years later, but it worked.

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CarlyBartel

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Hey Everyone,

I went back and read through this thread as I too am having this issue. I was able to narrow down the cause to Chrome. I'm completely blown away that Chrome itself is causing my Fireworks selection and zoom tools to stop working.

With Chrome open I have to drag to select, with Chrome closed Fireworks works flawlessly. I'm going to experiement further by turning off pluggins one by one and see if one of those is causing an issue.

Thanks for everyones help. You all saved me a headache. Now if we can get this issue resolved.

My info:

OSX 10.9.4

Fireworks CS6 12.0.0.238

Latest Chrome Version 37.0.2062.124

Jon D.

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CarlyBartel

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AHA!

The specific extension was the Google Play Music extension. Turning this off resolved my issue.

Odd that it seems to be apps/programs that use keyboard controls to control music.

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lukemou11

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Thank you soooooo much. This fixed it for me.

harvtron1

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CS6, OS X Mavericks, still a problem. Completely blown away that running a music program like Spotify breaks Fireworks selection tools. This is insane, but thanks to people here for at least stopping me from losing my mind from pure frustration.

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fireworks auto save

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This problem is back in Yosemite, with the Spotify fix introduced by nevyn (Spotify) that used to work successfully on Mavericks, preventing the conflict, no longer working in Yosemite. nevyn (Spotify)

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aehenze

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FIXED

I had similar problem. I was caused by spotify. Just close spotofy and get back to work (finaly)