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ElissaE
Inspiring
July 5, 2023
Question

Auto-Select unchecking every time I press CTRL

  • July 5, 2023
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Hi all,

I'm having an issue with selection and deselection. Every time I go to deselect layers and press CTRL, auto-select turns off (and when I release it, it comes back on). I used to be able to press CTRL and click outside of the canvas and it would deselect anything, certainly when I have more than one layer selected. Now that doesn't work anymore, and I just got the check + uncheck thing happening. If I press CTRL click and then lift off of CTRL, it'll just move & drag the selected layer (that I was trying to unselect).

 

I don't think I'm insane in the sense that I used to click outside the canvas to deselect. Those hot keys are like second nature at this point.

 

TIA

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    Kevin Stohlmeyer
    Community Expert
    Kevin StohlmeyerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 5, 2023

    Hi @ElissaE its been my experience that on Windows holding CTRL while using the Move tool has always toggled the "Auto select" option above. I even went back and tested on my copy of CC2020 and it did indeed act the same.

    That being said - using CTRL with any other tool besides the Move tool to temporarily change to the Move tool still works as expected as well, I can auto select layers without issue.

    The difference is if you already have the Move tool selected you do not need to use CTRL.

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    ElissaEAuthor
    Inspiring
    July 6, 2023

    If I Shift + CTRL+S to Save As, I get the same problem. I can't save, and it's only togging the Auto-Select button. Again, this is something I've not personally experienced in many previous versions (aka I don't know when this started exactly, but it was recently)

    Kevin Stohlmeyer
    Community Expert
    Kevin StohlmeyerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 6, 2023

    Hi @ElissaE try going to preferences/File Handling and check/enable "Use Legacy Save As". Relaunch PS and try again.

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