Select files between selections

Killer_Bean · Post by *Killer_Bean » 2018-05-22, 17:41 UTC

Hello,
I am a longtime TC user, however, I still can't find a keyboard shortcut to select files between selected file and actual cursor position. It works great with a mouse click while shift key is pressed but I would like to do that with the keyboard. I tried googling a lot without success. I hope you can understand what I want to do.
Thanks for all your help.

Edit: horrible grammar

Dalai · Post by *Dalai » 2018-05-22, 17:48 UTC

While holding the Shift key the cursor keys, Page-Up/-Down and Home/End keys can be used to toggle the selection of objects. Also pressing the Insert key selects the object under the cursor and moves the cursor down to the next object (if any), meaning you can hold the Insert key to make a larger selection of objects.

HTH

Regards
Dalai

Killer_Bean · Post by *Killer_Bean » 2018-05-22, 17:59 UTC

Dalai wrote:While holding the Shift key the cursor keys, Page-Up/-Down and Home/End keys can be used to toggle the selection of objects. Also pressing the Insert key selects the object under the cursor and moves the cursor down to the next object (if any), meaning you can hold the Insert key to make a larger selection of objects.

HTH

Regards
Dalai

I know about all this, and it doesn't really suit me because all of these methods involve holding a key or selecting one-at-a-time. The thing is if I browse photos and I know the first one and the last one, so the first one is selected and now I want to select all of them down to current cursor position I can't do that. What really bothers me is that it can be done easily with the mouse (shift+click), but it's impossible with the keyboard.

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2018-05-23, 07:03 UTC

Well, there is no really such function that allows to select files between selection and focus... And, it is not always clear which files should be selected when multiple selection ranges exist.

It is easy with mouse because you specify both selection borders in a single operation (one file is focused, you Shift+click another one, range is selected), but with keyboard there is no way to tell TC that some specific file should be treated as another selection border.