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.

[Nipun_Asthana · 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...

[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.