"Select none" keyboard shortcut

[Carlo Didier]

I'm missing a simple and direct shortcut to deselect all selected files. I could do Ctrl-A & Ctrl-I, but that means that in a view with thousands of files but only a dozen selected, I would first select all the thousands of files just to the invert the selection to deselct them.
Any other application I know of which has a selection option also has a direct keyboard shortcut to "deselect all" or "select none".

Not a big deal, but sometimes annoying ...

[Mario]

Hm. Not sure if this is often needed.

Just made a test: It takes 0.3 seconds to Crl+A and Ctrl+I 50,000 files, which effectively means you can de-select 50K files in 0.3 seconds.
Not sure how often you need to really de-select all files and keep only one file focused but not selected. Not really common.
As you said, pressing two keyboard shortcuts instead of one in these cases is only a small inconvenience.

Clicking outside a thumbnail panel also resets the selection.

[thrinn]

Any other application I know of which has a selection option also has a direct keyboard shortcut to "deselect all" or "select none".

Windows Explorer? Ctrl-A selects all files, but is there a shortcut to deselect?

[Carlo Didier]

Any other application I know of which has a selection option also has a direct keyboard shortcut to "deselect all" or "select none".

Windows Explorer? Ctrl-A selects all files, but is there a shortcut to deselect?

Windows Explorer is not an application ... 
But there is a key to deselct all in Windows Explorer: F5 

[DigPeter]

Slightly different slant.  Can a selection in IM be inverted?

[sinus]

Slightly different slant.  Can a selection in IM be inverted?

Ctrl I

[Mario]

See Keyboard Cheat Sheet
It's the second (!) shortcut listed on that page...

I do all the work with the help (and I really like the neat kcheat sheet) but nobody is fkn reading that stuff... 

[Jingo]

See Keyboard Cheat Sheet
It's the second (!) shortcut listed on that page...

I do all the work with the help (and I really like the neat kcheat sheet) but nobody is fkn reading that stuff... 

Would be a really interested study to determine how much a detailed HELP system makes a difference to software use and satisfaction...  I always check the help systems first... software like IMatch and XYPlorer have TREMENDOUS help and often it is the only place I need to go to figure something out.  Others are severley lacking... and off to the internet I go for a quick search to help.  I think most general users use the internet so much more than the F1 these days...

[DigPeter]

See Keyboard Cheat Sheet
It's the second (!) shortcut listed on that page...

I do all the work with the help (and I really like the neat kcheat sheet) but nobody is fkn reading that stuff... 

Sorry Mario - I will try to do better
There is so much stuff in and around IM that it I personally have difficulty remembering it all.

[DigPeter]

Slightly different slant.  Can a selection in IM be inverted?

Ctrl I

Thank you.