Unwanted copying in 'My Pictures'

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Trying to select several photographs for deleting,renaming etc., I hold down
Ctrl key and select required photos by clicking on them but before I can
select the required action on the drop down menu, the selected photos have
been copied ! This is a random occurrance as sometimes I am allowed to click
on the drop down menu to select delete etc. Before I realised what was
happening I landed up with literally hundreds of copies of copies of copies !
I have also tried this manoeuvre on another computer with the same results so
I feel sure it is a software glitch - has anyone else encountered it and if
so,what is the remedy please.
 
Foggy said:
Trying to select several photographs for deleting,renaming etc., I
hold down Ctrl key and select required photos by clicking on them but
before I can select the required action on the drop down menu, the
selected photos have been copied ! This is a random occurrance as
sometimes I am allowed to click on the drop down menu to select
delete etc. Before I realised what was happening I landed up with
literally hundreds of copies of copies of copies ! I have also tried
this manoeuvre on another computer with the same results so I feel
sure it is a software glitch - has anyone else encountered it and if
so,what is the remedy please.
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You said it occurred on other computers too, so it's apparently something
you're doing, like not having a steady mouse hand?
See:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q555375

HTH
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Foggy said:
Trying to select several photographs for deleting,renaming etc., I hold down
Ctrl key and select required photos by clicking on them but before I can
select the required action on the drop down menu, the selected photos have
been copied ! This is a random occurrance as sometimes I am allowed to click
on the drop down menu to select delete etc. Before I realised what was
happening I landed up with literally hundreds of copies of copies of copies !
I have also tried this manoeuvre on another computer with the same results so
I feel sure it is a software glitch - has anyone else encountered it and if
so,what is the remedy please.
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This is happening to me also..... can not find any online info for remedy.
Did you get this problem resolved?
 
i have the same problem what did you do? I have so many copies its not even
funny. I have read what other people said about not having a steady hand?
what? does not make sense to me?
 
kponall said:
i have the same problem what did you do? I have so many copies its not even
funny. I have read what other people said about not having a steady hand?
what? does not make sense to me?
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I have the same problem of unwanted copying but when it happens I just go to
the "Edit" tab on the headers and select "undo copy" immediately. After
being prompted for the action I can continue what I was doing.
 
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