Selecting items
Everything AssetScout can do to a file it does to the whole selection. These are the ways to build one.
Building a selection
| Click | Select one item, dropping whatever was selected before. |
| ⇧-click | Select everything between the item you clicked last and this one. |
| ⌘-click | Add one item to the selection, or take it out again. |
| Drag | Draw a rectangle over the grid; everything it touches is selected. |
| ⌘A | Select every item the window is listing. |
Select All takes what the window lists, not what the scan found. Anything the filter or the search field is hiding stays out of the selection — which is what makes “switch everything else off, then ⌘A” a safe way to act on one kind of file.
Finding your selection again
After scrolling a long way from what you selected, View > Jump to Selection or ⌘J brings it back into view. The same item is in the menu you get by right-clicking an empty part of the grid, which is usually where the pointer already is.
What the selection tells you
With more than one item selected, the inspector stops describing a file and starts describing the set: how many items are selected, and how much room they take together. That is the quick way to answer “what would I get back by deleting these?”. See File info and the map.