Move multiple photos problems

timk519 · November 3, 2009

I was moving a bunch of pics out of one gallery into a number of other galleries, and on multiple occasions the 'pic selection' process reset itself - ie the red square around previously selected images went away and I had to re-select those images in order to move them. :huh

No pattern I could discern that would give SM support a repeatable process though. :dunno

docwalker · November 3, 2009

This usually happens if you click really fast when selecting the photos and then miss a photo while clicking. For some reason the browser takes that misclick as starting over with the selections. I have been able to replicate it and that was the only way I could get it to happen. There was another issue where if you moved the mouse while clicking it would cause a similar odd behavior. Our programmers added a little delay to the page to prevent it from happening. So I don't think that is the issue here.

Try slowing down a little and see if that helps any.

--Doc

Allen · November 3, 2009

Doc's correct, any click anywhere on page can unselect all the thumbs selected.

timk519 · November 3, 2009

After the first time when only 4 images were moved instead of the 20+ I thought I'd selected, I slowed down and was clicking at a methodical pace, making sure I was hitting the images, and it still happened.

I don't know whether or not I was moving my mouse when the problem happened on later tries.

If I could use my keyboard to move and select (ala windows explorer), then the clicks wouldn't be necessary.

Move multiple photos problems

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