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P: Don't allow duplication of locked layers

Forum|Forum|14 years ago
September 26, 2011
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The (Mac)keyboard shortcut to make a copy of a selection when not in the move tool is:
command-option-drag selection. That's all good! But this same keyboard shortcut should NOT duplicate fully locked layers. A locked layer should really be locked (like Illustrator) or else there should be a preference to make it so, please. thanks.

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when I have text hovering over locked layer and i'm trying to duplicate using ctrl drag on the text, it grabs the locked layer and copies it instead, this bug was there for forever. attached is screen recording.

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https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYVwbkwjJm

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jonnys30092906

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DECEMBER 2019...regualrly checking to see if this is sorted in new updates.... it isn't

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100% agree with the OP. This has bugged me for years... Upvote.

SecretCrab

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Hello,

I have an issue when I alt + drag elements on my screen to quickly duplicate them. If there is a locked layer above what I want to select (auto-select is on) it will duplicate the locked layer instead of the element I have selected. I use auto-select and alt+drag to make my workflow faster, and I see no real reason to be able to duplicate layers that were previously locked. Unless someone has a very good reason for doing this, I think it's a minor technical fix that would make more sense.

Thank you.

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unique_person4993

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I heavily agree that this is how it should work. I'm having the same issue but with a layer under the layers I'm trying to alt+drag. The shapes I'm dealing with are rather small, so instead of selecting the layer I need it to select, it instead will grab the background and duplicate it instead quite often, which is very annoying.

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Thanks, that works

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FeedbackCommunityMember

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Select the layer with the move tool. Then hold Command and Option to drag and copy the layer. This will ignore the locked layer.

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Still big problem, can' t use locked top layer for orientation and work beneath because locked layer also duplicates whenever I want to duplicate beneath layer...

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jfeez

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How is this a solution?

Having to click into the layers panel to select your layer defeats the purpose of having a shortcut to Alt-Drag, which is the issue we're discussing. Otherwise, I'd simply click into the layers panel and duplicate the layer I want duplicated. When you have 40+ layers, being able to Auto-Select Layer and then Alt-Drag to duplicate is a gamechanger.

Regardless, it's still completely ridiculous and counterintuitive that a position-locked layer can be selected and duplicated!!

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jfeez

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no, it's not. that literally just duplicates the layer exactly as alt-drag does.

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My problem's quite simple. I'm in a fast paced work environment designing decor. I often have to duplicate masked branch-like objects and the fastest way to do it is alt dragging the object in the document window. 90% of the time this will grab the locked background layer and duplicate it instead. Sure I could go into the layers panel and do this, but there are sometimes hundreds of layers over there. Can we please have a preference option to turn this mostly useless feature off?

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