Animate keeps selecting everything

[inkyyz]

animate keeps selecting the whole frame when i go to a different frame and it's made it difficult and annoying for me to use and i can't find help anywhere.

i saw a poster who had the same problem as me and the answer was "click the frame numbers instead", an though that works, ive tried it and it is more difficult than just using it normally. please help.

[UDESCO · Accepted solution]

You can also use keyboard shortcuts to quickly jump across frames without selecting the contents on that frame.

, or . to move left or right by a single frame.

Alt + , or Alt + . to jump to previous or next keyframe.

[BSB2018]

As of Animate 2020 This no longer works. animate will select everything on the current frame randomly when tracking. Losing my mind trying to be productive with all these new issues! Not sure why im paying for this software, I should go back to CS6 ...

[Colin Holgate]

I think that the proper answer to the original question may be that the timeline options have a span based selection option. If that is checked, clicking a single cell will select the whole range, from the previous keyframe to just before the next keyframe. See whether you have that selected. 

[BSB2018]

It's not that. I just found a script that restores the original functionality from someone else having the exact same issue. Luckily, It fixes it:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/animate-discussions/deselecting-frames-with-quot-step-forward-backwar...

[Chicken31757029z3sw]

okay that may be the case for people that just want to keep using it. but this bug is in the NEWEST VERSION
ither tell me how to change it back or FIX YOUR DAMN SOFTWARE. i have order i need to finish and i cant do crap with this bug. i am trying to make an animation and cant get it to fix so i swear if you simply tell me "just use keybinds" i am going to stop paying and im gonna stop using adobe animate forever. heck ill take the source code and edit it just enough so that it still functions exactly like adobe animate. but mine will be free AND you wont be able to do anything because its techincally not your source code if i edit the way that the code works. so tell me how to fix it or i swear
(im mad right now and i have deadlines please fix this for the love of god)

[kglad]

@Chicken31757029z3sw 

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[HawkenKing]

If you select a symbol on the scene stage it will select all that frames in that layer, if you select a frame on the timeline it selects a frame, but not until you deselect that layer - if you click on a frame on that layer while the whole layer is selected, it'll just select all the frames in that layer again.

It can be a bit frustrating, try to select something else before going back to your layer and selecting the frame you want.

I think the intended functionality is that you can drag those frames, so clicking again only uses the drag function.

[Rj11leven]

i dont understand 

[nielsbeekes]

This is marked as a correct answer, however it is not. It's a work around.