Sometimes this says “this will delete all messages in this group” when I try to delete multiple items then I have to say no and it will then select a load of emails that weren’t selected.
The control/shift clicking does not work as expected.
Say I have 10 emails and I want to select all except #4. I can click #1, shift click #10 to highlight them all then control click #4 to deselect it. What I can’t do is click #1, shift click #3, control click #5, control shift click #10. Control+shift doesn’t recognise the shift action at all.
Also sometimes this will just end up selecting an entire group when I go to delete and override the emails I have selected. I think unless you click on a group heading and only a group heading, it should ignore the group and just do the selected emails
Yes that is correct, but if I control/shift click between more than 1 groups it isn’t intended behaviour to select the whole group surely. That’s not what I was trying to do.
e.g.
Today
1
2
3
Yesterday
1
2
3
If I select 3 from today then shift click to 1 from yesterday, then control click 3 from yesterday, sometimes when I do delete it will say it’s going to delete everything from the group.
This should only happen if I specifically click the group header, not if I shift click emails across 2 groups. Otherwise if I want to select 50 emails then ctrl click deselect some from several groups, I have to do 1 day at a time
What I expected was the ability when holding down a key (or not!) to select multiple contiguous emails by mouse SWIPE, given a first starting-point click. Then maybe skip over some you want to keep and add to the selected group with a second key-click-swipe. So then you have selected 2 (or more) non-contiguous groups of emails to take an action on, be it Delete, Transfer, whatever one could do on a single email.
For me, the shift or control key does nothing for selecting multiples. I have to either laboriously click each one OR often-overkill select the group “header” .
This still isn’t working for me in the latest version unfortunately. The ctrl+shift clicking just doesn’t work at all.
Do this in thunderbird to see how it should be working.
Say you have 20 emails, you could click #1, shift click #4 then 1-4 would be selected, this works in em.
Then hold ctrl and click on #8, then ctrl+shift click on #12. In em it just ignore the shift and will have 1-4, 8 and 12 selected. In thunderbird it will correctly have 1-4 AND 8-12 selected.
Yes, that’s the way it’s working for me, thanks for the help on the shift-click the end-point email. But also yes, the ctrl+shift click does what you say instead of what you mean.
In my old Eudora I could select non-contiguous multiples by just click-ctrl-hold-Swipe, let off to omit one or more, then another click-ctrl-hold-Swipe for each new grouping. Oh well, the old Eudora didn’t have a Calendar…