Selecting via Click & Drag
In previous iterations, we used to be able to hold down the alt/command key (Mac), and drag over many thumbnail icons (in alternating columns, let's say), and each would be added to the overall selection. Now that is not the case. While we can click on single thumbnails in a panel while holding down alt/command, the selection refreshes with each new "click and drag."
I occasionally take many screenshots (cmd + shift + 3 on a Mac) which grabs BOTH screens, but I may only need the image on one. When I go back into Bridge, those end up as alternating thumbnails, and I used to be able to make 3-5 click & drags up each column of thumbnails, thereby selecting many that I could then delete or flag or drag elsewhere in one fell swoop. Same for separating adjacent B&W from Color images in the same folder. Now that option is impossible.
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phong tran hong commented
Me got also same issue.
1. Can't drag select multiple files in column while scrolling.
2. With drag select multiple files in column to bottom edge quite slow. And after reach the end point, it appears multiple unstable issues:
- sometimes it lost selection after drag select and scroll,
- sometimes it returns back first page, only selects the files on first page.
- sometimes it didn't scroll at all, only stay at first page. -
Kukurykus: Yeah, I realize this would be so much easier to demonstrate visually than describe with words. Second paragraph was just an example of what I meant, where I end up with many "paired" images, whether they're a large set of screen grabs from two monitors, or both color and B&W versions of the same shots. In the grid layout, those two images land side-by-side in the viewing panel. I may want to delete or move half of those shots (all the B&Ws, e.g.). If I have 50 images (5 rows of 10 images), and every other one is B&W, I used to be able to put my cursor at the bottom of the screen, and – while holding down the alt/command key – click and drag up EVERY OTHER COLUMN. (See attached images) That was a quick way to select half the shots I wanted (25 in this case) to move, delete, label, etc., in the next step. Now, I can only select one column that way, and I then must click on every other desired shot individually, which can be rather tedious.
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Kukurykus
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I voted to fix a bug described in first paragraph, but I can't understand what you mean in the second.
