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    direct selection tool missing tail — can’t drag to move certain shape layers

    Posted by Mel Ruiz on January 20, 2016 at 2:23 am

    I might be missing something simple, but I can’t seem to find an answer yet.

    I’m using AE cc 2015. I have not encountered this issue until a few hours ago. When I select some of my shape layers (only certain of them) and have the v tool selected, instead of an arrow, I get the tail-less arrow head and am only able to drag the vertices around. I am not able to move the shape via dragging — only using keypad.

    is this a bug? if so, any idea how to fix?

    Thank you!

    Kalleheikki Kannisto replied 10 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Walter Soyka

    January 20, 2016 at 4:38 pm

    What exact version of Ae CC 2015 are you using? One bug that sounds like this was fixed in 13.5.1, and a different bug (pan behind tool, maybe?) was fixed in 13.6.

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  • Mel Ruiz

    January 20, 2016 at 5:18 pm

    I’m on 13.6.0.165.

    :-\

  • Kalleheikki Kannisto

    January 20, 2016 at 5:41 pm

    To me it sounds like the normal behavior for the direct selection tool with paths/shape vertices for vertex point editing when there is no fill in the shape.

    Try double-clicking the path to select the whole shape.

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