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Problem deleting files/folders

I have a lot of files/folders in my documents I want to delete. They aren't all together so I need to go down them and highlight the ones I want to delete. To delete more than one say 10 at a time I highlight one then press control and highlight the others I want to delete then right click mouse for delete.

It is copying some of them and adding to the end of my documents.

What am I doing wrong please?

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  • AHAR
    AHAR Posts: 984 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Combo Breaker
    edited 25 February 2011 at 8:07PM
    Not sure what's going on - are you perhaps 'picking them up' by holding down the right click, moving the mouse slightly and letting go? This may drop them into a nearby non-selected folder.
    Your keyboard will have a key to the right of the space bar somewhere which acts as a right-click and should bring up the menu with the delete option on it without any risk of dragging the selection anywhere.
  • fitshase
    fitshase Posts: 443 Forumite
    If you hold control and then click and drag a file it will make a copy. Looks like, while you are selecting the files with ctrl pressed, you are accidentally dragging one of the files which will then copy the lot.

    Click a bit slower.
  • Thanks clicked slower and it's fine
  • John_Gray
    John_Gray Posts: 5,845 Forumite
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    If the files you want to delete are "all together", one after the other, try clicking on the top one, holding down Shift rather than Ctrl, then clicking on the bottom one - this causes the block of files to be selected, and you can delete them all in one go.
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