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Paul Peterson
Paul Peterson
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January 18, 2017
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Mouse-click deselection of multiple-selected items

  • January 18, 2017
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Is there a good reason the user should not be offered a switch to have the mouse section use standard PC convention.  Multi-select items in a list in any other software, including MS explorer (not IE), then single click one of those files, and all the other files are deselected.  THAT is the standard.  I can't remember the number of times I've lost hours of work in Lightroom because of this HUGE flaw.

Standard scenario:

  1. I multi select images to sych settings,
  2. I mess for a while with one of the selected images until I realize that I don't want one of the other selected images,
  3. I click on one of them,
  4. I select 'Delete from hard drive',
  5. ALL the files get deleted, including all the hours spend on them.
  6. I can salvage from trashcan and re-import, but all my edits are gone forever!  ARRRRG!!!!

Who does one send a software request to?

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    Just Shoot Me
    Just Shoot Me
    Legend
    January 19, 2017

    This is clearly user Error. When you Right click on an image, with multiple images selected, the wording in the pop up menu is "Remove Photos" (NOTE the S at the end of PhotoS). Then in the dialog box that comes up it clearly states the number of images, Photos, to be removed and or deleted from Disk. If you actually took the time to read the menu selection and then the dialog box you can click the Cancel button.

    If you had held down the Ctrl key, Windows (Not sure which key on a Mac), when left clicking on the images you wanted to Delete to Deselect it and then right clicked on it you would remove/delete just that one image.

    The reason LR isn't like a File manager is because it is not a File Manager. If I have multiple images selected and want to display one of them in the loupe view but don't want to Deselect all the other images all I have to do is left click on that image then go to the loupe view to enlarge it. That is the reason LR doesn't work like Windows File Explorer.

    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Legend
    January 19, 2017

    Who does one send a software request to?

    Adobe wants feature requests and bug reports posted to the official Adobe feedback forum: Photoshop Family Customer Community . (This forum is primarily a user-to-user forum in which Adobe product developers rarely participate.)

      johnrellis
      johnrellis
      Legend
      January 19, 2017

      Multi-select items in a list in any other software, including MS explorer (not IE), then single click one of those files, and all the other files are deselected.

      If you post your suggestion, you might include your thoughts on how to handle (or replace) LR's selection model, in which multiple photos are selected and one photo is "most selected".  This selection model is used in many places in LR, e.g. when syncing settings from one photo to other photos.

      ManiacJoe
      ManiacJoe
      Inspiring
      January 18, 2017

      In the Library grid view, there are two places to click: the thumbnail and the gray border.

      When you click the thumbnail, the selections remain active and the clicked image becomes the "master" selection.

      When you click the gray border, the selection resets to that single image.

      Rob_Cullen
      Community Expert
      Rob_CullenCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      January 19, 2017

      To expand on the answer from ManiacJoe

      Quotes copied from my notes-

      THE FOUR SHADES OF GREY

      1. UN-SELECTED IMAGE BORDERS ARE MID-GREY.
      2. THE FIRST IMAGE SELECTED IS THE “PRIMARY” OR “MOST SELECTED” IMAGE WITH A VERY LIGHT GREY BORDER.
      3. ANY FURTHER IMAGES SELECTED BY HOLDING [CTRL] OR [COMMAND] OR [SHIFT] KEYS, BECOME THE “SECONDARY” SELECTED FILES WITH A LIGHT GREY BORDER.
      4. IMAGES WITH A VIRTUAL COPY BOTH SHOW AS DARK GREY IN LIBRARY GRID MODE.

      WHEN MULTIPLE FILES ARE SELECTED-

      *CLICKING ON THE IMAGE AREA IN A THUMBNAIL UPGRADES THIS IMAGE TO THE “PRIMARY” SELECTED IMAGE. (aka. “MASTER” IMAGE)AND  THE “SECONDARY” SELECTIONS  (aka “CHILD” SELECTIONS)  REMAIN SELECTED.

      *CLICKING ON AN IMAGE THUMBNAIL GREY BORDER- DESELECTS ALL OTHER IMAGES.

      [CTRL+A] WILL SELECT  ALL IMAGES.

      [CTRL+D] WILL DESELECT ‘ANY SELECTED’ IMAGE (NONE ARE SELECTED).

      PRESSING THE [ / ] KEY DESELECTS THE SELECTED IMAGES STARTING FROM THE PRIMARY IMAGE SELECTED AND RESETS THE NEXT IMAGE TO THE “PRIMARY”

      Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.0, Photoshop 27.0, ACR 18.0, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0 .
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