Click-Drag Should Select All (non-locked) Objects

[SamMN]

Don't know whether this is a glitch or a missing feature (if it is missing, please add it!), but if you click-drag to highlight several objects, it only selects certain things (seems to ignore groups and images). This is rather annoying when you quickly want to grab a few objects and move them around. I don't want to group all these objects (or try to find them all in the layers panel and CMD+click to select them all) in order to make the occasional movement adjustment on otherwise separate objects, as it will quickly become a faff to keep grouping and ungrouping things.

When I click drag over everything in the screenshot, only the two boxes pointed to with the red line are selected. (The object on the left is a group; a box with a fill colour, and two text boxes). Why are groups and images ignored on click-drag selections? (They're not locked either) Am I missing something?

 

Edit: Made a mistake, it only selects one object at a time, not both boxes, which is even more annoying (it's just that click drag can be used to select either box, whereas it won't select at all an image or group). My bad.

Edit 2: OK, sometimes it seems to select both the textboxes, so maybe it's a bit glitchy too.

[MickRose]

Works okay here. Are you enclosing the objects or just mousing over some of the object? I think its changeable in the preferences somewhere and it might be worth checking your setting.

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, MickRose said:

Works okay here. Are you enclosing the objects or just mousing over some of the object? I think its changeable in the preferences somewhere and it might be worth checking your setting.

I think you're referring to this preference:

[SamMN]

16 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

I think you're referring to this preference:

That seemed to do the trick! Thanks!