Selecting multiple files with mouse now wonky

Using Windows 8.1 on HP machine
All updates up-to-date
Hardware: Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 3.0
Explorer Folder Option selected: Single-click to open an item (point to select); Underline icon titles only when I point on them
Display: Detail list (Ctrl + Shift + 6)
No touch input
Here's the problem: For as long as I have used windows, I can select multiple files by pressing ctrl-left mouse button. If I want to select multiple consecutive files, I move my cursor down to the last file in the list and press shift-left mouse button.
If I want to select multiple files that are not listed consecutively, I move my cursor along the list of files and press ctrl-left mouse button to select each individual file.
This does not work for me any longer and I do not know why.
Often I will press ctrl-left mouse click and the file will not select. When I move my mouse away from the file I've selected, it will UN-select. If I continue to press the CTRL key while attempting to select another file and float my mouse cursor down the
list of files to select ONE single file further in the list, ALL the files in between the first file I click and the final file will become selected.
Moving the mouse cursor carefully and steadily to select individual files yields varied results; sometimes I can select individual files; sometimes, I can click multiple times to select an additional file and the file will not become selected. More often
than not, I will select several files and earlier files will become unselected.
Extremely frustrating.
I have been a Windows user since version 3.1 and this has never happened to me. I have been a Windows 8.1 user for over a year now and this is a new wrinkle. I have done system restore multiple times and it has not solved the problem. I have uninstalled
Intellipoint/Microsoft Keyboard & Mouse center and reinstalled and the problem has not solved. I have checked every setting for my mouse in the mouse center and cannot see a setting that imposes this feature.
Changing folder options to Double-click to open an item (single click to select) solves the problem. I am able to navigate and organize my files the way I always have. Only happens when single-click feature is enabled. Please note: I have been using the
single-click select feature since Windows XP.
Your guidance and actual solution to this irritant is appreciated.

Hi,
During my test, I cannot repro this issue even I configure the same setting with you. Maybe a hardware issue or software issue.
Does this issue happen to other mouse?
Can you test in safe mode to check how it works?
Alex Zhao
TechNet Community Support

Similar Messages

Selecting Multiple Files With Shift Key

Am I right in understanding that the only way to select multiple files with the Shift key in Finder is by using File view? Seems kinda silly.
Thank you, Scott

I'm at my Snow Leopard machine right now, and I'm not sure that nothing was changed in Mavericks, but I never noticed that it was.
I have four view modes: Icon, List, Column and CoverFlow.
I almost always use Column view, but I am guessing that you are calling Icon view File view. In Icon view, Shift clicking seems to work the way Command clicking does in Column view (and probably the other views as well): it allows you to add randomly selected files to the selection. In Column view, Shift clicking works like it does for most things (like text selection); it selects every thing between the previous click and the Shift click.

How to select multiple files with Trackpad

I am new to Mac and to the Trackpad. I apologize if this has been posted.
When I work on a Windows PC, if I want to select multiple consecutive files I can click on the first file, press and hold SHIFT and then select the last file and all files in between are selected.
I tried that using the Trackpad and it doesn't seem to work the same way. Is there another key combination? I can select multiple files by either using SHIFT (on Picasa website for example) and then tap or by holding COMMAND and then tap each individual file. But how do I select multiple files similar to Windows, clicking first file pressing a key and clicking the last file.
Thanks in advance for any input on this.

If you choose 'view as list', you can use the shift-key. Select an item, press the shift-key while you press an item below and all the items between are selected.

Pages '09: Can't select multiple objects with mouse?

Hello! I want to select some shapes. I know that I can hold down shift and click on them individually one by one, but they're very many and grouped together, so I just want to draw a 'selection-rectangle' with the mouse, just as it works in all other programs I've ever used. But this doesn't seem to work. What am I doing wrong?

Hello Stef,
You can simply click and drag over an area to select multiple objects if you are in a Page Layout document, but since this is your fourth post you may be new to Pages and you may not yet even be aware of the Page Layout mode. At the top of your Pages window is the document title and next to the title in parentheses are the words "Word Processing" or "Page Layout".
So, in a Word Processing document, it's just a little bit more involved. In the upper left corner of the window, click on the View icon and select "Show Layout". You will see gray around the edges - your desktop, a white sheet - your paper, and three rectangular outlines - the header field, the text frame and the footer field. This assumes that you have the Header and Footer turned on.
As you move your mouse, the text insertion bar, a vertical line with curved features top and bottom, will move about the document. Move the insertion bar to the margin, outside of the boxes, and press and hold the COMMAND key. Your cursor will change to an arrowhead. Now you can select multiple objects by click-dragging, just as you are accustomed to doing in other applications.
Regards,
Jerry

Multiple selections to multiple layers or multiple files with one go ?

Hi,
how to convert multiple selections to multiple layers or multiple files with one go ?
Thanks!

You may want to ask over at
http://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop/photoshop_scripting?view=discussions
or
http://ps-scripts.com/bb/
I think there are Scripts about for the task or at least ones that could be adapted without too much problems.
The usual approach is, I think, creating a Work Path from a Selection and then using (expanded) Selections based on the individual subPathItems to intersect with the original selection.
Of course there are possibilities for bad results …

How do you select multiple files on a macbook pro?

Can anyone tell me how to select multiple files at one time? I am so frustrated with the way macbook pro works that I really regret buying it. I hate that you can't select multiple files, and that my contact stuff keeps changing. It is certainly not like I was told...that I would never want to use a PC again. I would not buy another apple computer. I spent a lot of money to NOT be able to do things that I have always done with ease. Every time I think I have something figured out, it doesn't work the next time I go to use it in another program. If anyone has an answer to this, I would sure appreciate it.
And all of these so called wonderful updates to the operating system on all mac products have left me frustrated and liking my apple products far less than I did before. On my iphone I had to make the texts just huge to even be able to see the white writing on a blue background. Not sure who made these designs, but from my perspective, I can tell you they certainly weren't thinking about being user friendly in any way when they did it. So disappointed in all of my devices! I do not enjoy using my computer, ipad, or iphone even close to what I did before.

This is some information on the Finder.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2470
To select multiple files you can use the shift key with the mouse if they are in a contiguous list or the CMD key with the mouse if you have breaks in that list. You can also use the mouse to drag over the files you want to select.
The Macs are easy to use, I have used many versions of Windows, Linux and other operating systems and I find OS X is far the easiest, but that is me.
There are many instructional videos and texts on Apples web site and if you are near to an Apple store they do classes to help.
Hope you get used to it.

How to prompt user to select multiple files in file dialog using scripts

Hi, is there a way to allow user to select multiple files inside the file dialog using scripts? So not just something like "*.ai" or "*.eps" but where the user can actually use their shift key to select a batch of files inside the file dialog and then the script would process each one.
Thanks!

// Main Code [Execution of script begins here]
here's what I have so far. it would also be nice to not have illustrator stop at errors.. right now, it skips dialogs but on errors, it still stops.
// uncomment to suppress Illustrator warning dialogs
app.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevel.DONTDISPLAYALERTS;
var destFolder, sourceFolder, files, fileType, sourceDoc, targetFile, pdfSaveOpts, folderName;
var fullPath = "";
var finalSlash;
// Select the source folder.
sourceFolder = Folder.selectDialog( 'Select the folder with Illustrator .ai files you want to convert to PDF');
f = find_files(sourceFolder);
function find_files (dir)
    return find_files_sub (dir, []);
function find_files_sub (dir, array)
    var f = Folder (dir).getFiles ("*.*");
    for (var i = 0; i < f.length; i++)
        if (f[i] instanceof Folder)
            find_files_sub (f[i], array);
        else
            if (f[i].name.slice (-3).toLowerCase() == ".ai"          || f[i].name.slice (-4).toLowerCase() == ".eps")
                    //convert the array-listing to a string so we can manipulate it
                    fullPath = String(f[i]);
                    //find the position of the last / to indicate where the filename starts
                    finalSlash = fullPath.lastIndexOf("/");
                    //get the foldername by "slicing" from start to where finalSlash is located
                    folderName = fullPath.slice(0, finalSlash).toLowerCase();
                    sourceDoc = app.open(f[i]); // returns the document object
                    // Call function getNewName to get the name and file to save the pdf
                                                  targetFile_PNG = getNewName(".png");
                                                  if(targetFile_PNG.exists) {
                                                  } else {
                                                            pngExportOpts = getPNGOptions();
                                                            sourceDoc.exportFile(targetFile_PNG, ExportType.PNG24, pngExportOpts );
                    targetFile_PDF = getNewName(".pdf");
                    pdfSaveOpts = getPDFOptions();
                                                  sourceDoc.saveAs(targetFile_PDF, pdfSaveOpts );
                                                  targetFile_SVG = getNewName(".svg");
                                                  svgSaveOpts = getSVGOptions();
                                                  sourceDoc.exportFile(targetFile_SVG, ExportType.SVG, svgSaveOpts );
                    sourceDoc.close();
                    array.push (f[i]);
getNewName: Function to get the new file name. The primary
name is the same as the source file.
function getNewName(ext)
    var ext, docName, newName, saveInFile, docName, finalDot
    var loop = 0;
    docName = sourceDoc.name;
    ext = ext; // new extension for pdf file
    newName = "";
    finalDot = sourceDoc.name.lastIndexOf(".");
    while(loop < finalDot)
        newName += docName[loop];
        loop = loop + 1;
    newName += ext; // full pdf name of the file
          newName = newName.replace(" [Converted]","");
    // Create a file object to save the pdf
    saveInFile = new File( folderName + '/' + newName );
    return saveInFile;
getPDFOptions: Function to set the PDF saving options of the
files using the PDFSaveOptions object.
function getPDFOptions()
    // Create the PDFSaveOptions object to set the PDF options
    var pdfSaveOpts = new PDFSaveOptions();
    // Setting PDFSaveOptions properties. Please see the JavaScript Reference
    // for a description of these properties.
    // Add more properties here if you like
    pdfSaveOpts.acrobatLayers = false;
    pdfSaveOpts.colorBars = false;
    pdfSaveOpts.colorCompression = CompressionQuality.AUTOMATICJPEGHIGH;
    pdfSaveOpts.compressArt = true; //default
    pdfSaveOpts.embedICCProfile = false;
    pdfSaveOpts.enablePlainText = false;
    pdfSaveOpts.generateThumbnails = false; // default
    pdfSaveOpts.optimization = true;
    pdfSaveOpts.pageInformation = false;
    pdfSaveOpts.preserveEditability = true;
    return pdfSaveOpts;
function getSVGOptions()
          var svgSaveOpts = new ExportOptionsSVG();
          //just using defaults aside from what's written below
//see http://cssdk.host.adobe.com/sdk/1.0/docs/WebHelp/references/csawlib/com/adobe/illustrator/ ExportOptionsSVG.html
svgSaveOpts.embedRasterImages = true;
svgSaveOpts.sVGTextOnPath = true;
          return svgSaveOpts;
function getPNGOptions()
          // Create the PDFSaveOptions object to set the PDF options
          var pngExportOpts = new ExportOptionsPNG24();
          // Setting PNGExportOptions properties. Please see the JavaScript Reference
          // for a description of these properties.
          // Add more properties here if you like
          pngExportOpts.antiAliasing = true;
          pngExportOpts.artBoardClipping = false;
          pngExportOpts.horizontalScale = 100; // scaling to 350%
          pngExportOpts.saveAsHTML = false;
          pngExportOpts.transparency = true;
          pngExportOpts.verticalScale = 100; // scaling to 350%
          return pngExportOpts;

Can't select multiple files without them all opening.

I'm trying to move multiple files from another drive after having to have my HD replaced on a recall. Most every time I try to select the files I want to move, every one of them opens in its own window, as well as opening programs when different types of files are selected. I then have to close all the windows before I can move the files. This wasn't a problem before the HD was replaced and I can't figure out what is different this time.
I've tried selecting them by clicking on the first file and holding down the shift key and selecting the last one. This selects all of them, but also opens all of them. I then tried holding down the Command key and selecting them one at a time, Tedious, but still opens every one I click on. Have tried to use the mouse to draw a box around them, but this doesn't seem to work on the Mac.
This is Mac OS X 10.6.8
Please help before I go totally nuts. Nearly there now.
Thanks
Peg

@ vsai :
Do it properly man, I repeat,
Open gallery ---> swipe from down-----> tap on share option-----> and then select multiple files by touching them... and now tap share icon.
If you find difficulty let me know.

Command+click and drag to select multiple files

Hi everyone,
I switched about a year ago and recently joined this group. I love OS X and will never go back to windoze, however after recently upgrading to Tiger, I went to command+click and drag to select multiple files in order to drag them to the trash, all I succeeded in doing was to drop one file into the next folder down. Did I miss a check box somewhere, or something. It feels like windoze now, having to command+click individual files to select more than one, or use the edit menu to "select all".
I'm not going back to Panther just to get back this feature I miss, and was hoping there is a way to get it to work in Tiger, any suggestions?
eMac G4 1 gig superdrive Mac OS X (10.4.3) 768 megs sdram

You might find this easy to do in column view:
1. Select a group of contiguous files by clicking on the first, then hold down the shift key and click on the last one you want, all files between first and last will be selected.
2. To add an odd file here and there to the group hold down the command key and click on the file.
Thus you can quickly select an entire group in the middle with click/shift click, then add additional files individually to the selected group.
Francine
Schwieder

Upload multiple files WITH correct pairs of form fields into Database

In my form page, I would like to allow 3 files upload and 3 corresponding text fields, so that the filename and text description can be saved in database table in correct pair. Like this:
INSERT INTO table1 (filename,desc) VALUES('photo1.jpg','happy day');
INSERT INTO table1 (filename,desc) VALUES('photo2.jpg','fire camp');
INSERT INTO table1 (filename,desc) VALUES('photo3.jpg','christmas night');
However, using the commons fileupload, http://commons.apache.org/fileupload/, I don't know how to reconstruct my codes so that I can acheieve this result.
if(item.isFormField()){
}else{
}I seems to be restricted from this structure.
The jsp form page
<input type="text" name="description1" value="" />
<input type="file" name="sourcefile" value="" />
<input type="text" name="description2" value="" />
<input type="file" name="sourcefile" value="" />The Servlet file
package Upload;
import sql.*;
import user.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.servlet.ServletFileUpload;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.disk.DiskFileItemFactory;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.*;
public class UploadFile extends HttpServlet {
private String fs;
private String category = null;
private String realpath = null;
public String imagepath = null;
public PrintWriter out;
private Map<String, String> formfield = new HashMap<String, String>();
//Initialize global variables
public void init(ServletConfig config, ServletContext context) throws ServletException {
    super.init(config);
//Process the HTTP Post request
public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request,HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
    request.setCharacterEncoding("utf-8");
    response.setCharacterEncoding("utf-8");
    response.setContentType("text/html");
    PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
    Thumbnail thumb = new Thumbnail();
    fs = System.getProperty("file.separator");
    this.SetImagePath();
     boolean isMultipart = ServletFileUpload.isMultipartContent(request);
     if(!isMultipart){
      out.print("not multiple part.");
     }else{
         FileItemFactory factory = new DiskFileItemFactory();
         ServletFileUpload upload = new ServletFileUpload(factory);
         List items = null;
         try{
            items = upload.parseRequest(request);
         } catch (FileUploadException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
         Iterator itr = items.iterator();
         while (itr.hasNext()) {
           FileItem item = (FileItem) itr.next();
           if(item.isFormField()){
              String formvalue = new String(item.getString().getBytes("ISO-8859-1"), "utf-8");
              formfield.put(item.getFieldName(),formvalue);
              out.println("Normal Form Field, ParaName:" + item.getFieldName() + ", ParaValue: " + formvalue + "<br/>");
           }else{
             String itemName = item.getName();
             String filename = GetTodayDate() + "-" + itemName;
             try{
               new File(this.imagepath + formfield.get("category")).mkdirs();
               new File(this.imagepath + formfield.get("category")+fs+"thumbnails").mkdirs();
               //Save the file to the destination path
               File savedFile = new File(this.imagepath + formfield.get("category") + fs + filename);
               item.write(savedFile);
               thumb.Process(this.imagepath + formfield.get("category") +fs+ filename,this.imagepath + formfield.get("category") +fs+ "thumbnails" +fs+ filename, 25, 100);
               DBConnection db = new DBConnection();
               String sql = "SELECT id from category where name = '"+formfield.get("category")+"'";
               db.SelectQuery(sql);
                while(db.rs.next()){
                  int cat_id = db.rs.getInt("id");
                  sql = "INSERT INTO file (cat_id,filename,description) VALUES ("+cat_id+",'"+filename+"','"+formfield.get("description")+"')";
                  out.println(sql);
                  db.RunQuery(sql);
             } catch (Exception e){
                e.printStackTrace();
        HttpSession session = request.getSession();
        UserData k = (UserData)session.getAttribute("userdata");
        k.setMessage("File Upload successfully");
        response.sendRedirect("./Upload.jsp");
//Get today date, it is a test, actually the current date can be retrieved from SQL
public String GetTodayDate(){
    SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd");
    String today = format.format(new Date());
    return today;
//Set the current RealPath which the file calls for this file
public void SetRealPath(){
    this.realpath = getServletConfig().getServletContext().getRealPath("/");
public void SetImagePath(){
    this.SetRealPath();
    this.imagepath = this.realpath + "images" +fs;
}Can anyone give me some code suggestion? Thx.

When one hits the submit button - I then get a 404 page error.What is the apaches(?) error log saying? Mostly you get very useful information when looking into the error log!
In any case you may look at how you are Uploading Multiple Files with mod_plsql.

How do I select multiple files under "Get File Info"and lock or unlock all?

How do I select multiple files under "Get File Info"and lock or unlock them all? It seems to do it automatically when I have 10 or more selected. But how do I lock or unlock 5 or 6 files in one swoop? Thanks

Select the desired files then press OPTION and select Show Inspector from the Finder's File menu.
Why reward points?(Quoted from Discussions Terms of Use.)
The reward system helps to increase community participation. When a community member gives you (or another member) a reward for providing helpful advice or a solution to their question, your accumulated points will increase your status level within the community.
Members may reward you with 5 points if they deem that your reply is helpful and 10 points if you post a solution to their issue. Likewise, when you mark a reply as Helpful or Solved in your own created topic, you will be awarding the respondent with the same point values.

To create multiple files with same content but with different names

Hi SapAll.
here i have got a tricky situation on Idoc to File Scenario.
in my interface of an Idoc to file ,there is requirement to create multiple files with different file names but with same content based on one Idoc Segment.
which means there will be one Zsegment with two fields in the idoc,where one field with (content refers to the name which file name should start with .so lets say if this segment is repeated for 3 times then PI should create 3 files in the same directory with same content but with different file names (from the filed).
so here for now iam using one reciever file communication channel.
can any body give me the quick answer.
regards.
Varma

What do you mean by different names?
when i make proper setting in the Receiver Channel....on how to create the filename (what to append) like add Timestamp, counter, date, messageid.....even in this case you will ahve file with different names and that too from same File channel.
You can perform multi-mapping in XI/ PI and then your File channel will place the files in the target folder with relevant names. You cannot use Dynamic Configuration with Multi-Mapping!
If you intend to use different File channels, then do the configuration as required (normal)...even over here you can follow multi-mapping.
Do not use a BPM!
Regards,
Abhishek.

Problems selecting multiple files

I just replaced my MacBook Pro with a newer version. I am trying to organize my photos and cannot select multiple files or photos.
I'm needing to organize in Pictures not iPhoto.
I've had Macs for years and never had an issue before.
Thanks,

the problem is you are not stoping the writing to file when you hit the end of one file.
At the server you should count the number of bytes that you write to the disk and should stop when the total count reach the file size.
Or you have to completly change your protocole to handle entire file as one unit.
Ex:-
public class MyFile implements java.io.Serializable{
String path;
private void writeObject(ObjectOutputStream oos){
   oos.defaultWriteObject();
   byte b[] = new byte[1024*128];
   int i = 0;
   FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(path);
   while ((i = fis.read(b)) >=0){
      oos.writeObject(trim(b,i));
   fis.close();
   oos.writeObject("EOF");
private byte[] trim(byte b[], int i){
    byte b2[] = new byte;
System.arraycopy(b,0,b2,0,i);
return b2;
// You should be able to write the read object method

Bridge is slow and lags when selecting multiple files to open.

I currently have CS6 latest version (ver. 13.0 x64)
My problem is in my Bridge software (5.0.2.4 x64)
I have been getting a 4 or 5 second delay when trying to
select multiple files or navigating through the menu and functions.
(Photoshop also delays a few seconds when opening a file.)
After trying different solutions, I have narrowed my best guess to a
conflict with my video card or drivers.
I have a PC running win 7 64 bit. 12 gb of ram, an ATI radion 3000 video card with the
latest driver. An AMD phenom quad processor.
All of my drivers and software is up to date, including my Windows 7.
No other software on my computer gives me any LAG time or problems.

You need a better video card. You card rates a passmark score of 106. You probably need one at least of 500 and closer to 1000 is good. You get a card above this score you start paying more and getting less. http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/

Batch Rename Multiple files with different names

Hi,
Is there any way to batch rename multiple files with individual names? I.e
IMG_123 changed to RSP45AS
IMG_124 changed to MOL157A
IMG_125 changed to AGKH135
IMG_126 changed to MNOLH13
IMG_127 changed to ASFBLUG
Etc.
Are they any programs or scripts or plug ins that would do that job?
Thanks

HI there Onemorewave,
It looks like there is a batch remname feature included in OS X 10.10 Yosimte if you are planing on updating.
Rename files, folders, and disks - Mac Help
Rename multiple items
Select the items, then Control-click one of them.
In the shortcut menu, select Rename Items.
In the pop-up menu below Rename Folder Items, choose to replace text in the names, add text to the names, or change the name format.
Replace text: Enter the text you want to remove in the Find field, then enter the text you want to add in the “Replace with” field.
Add text: Enter the text to you want to add in the field, then choose to add the text before or after the current name.
Format: Choose a name format for the files, then choose to put the index, counter, or date before or after the name. Enter a name in the Custom Format field, then enter the number you want to start with.
Click Rename.
Note: To batch rename, you would want to choose the "Format" option.
-Griff W

Selecting multiple files with mouse now wonky

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for