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If a folder has new files being written to it and you select a bunch of files, the selection gets reset on every file list update meaning you can't select nor do anything with the other files in that folder unless you Ctrl+R or suspend auto refresh, all of this only happens if a move or copy operation is currently being processed, once the move operation finishes the selection stops being reset. And to be more precise, the move/copy operation doesn't have to be to or from this directory.

In my case I had a file being written into a directory on drive P, also I was moving a file from drive E to drive C. While all of this was happening if I tried to select any files on the folder of the drive P the selection was being reset (or deselected, I don't know why that word feels ugly to me), once the moving operation from E to C completed the selection didn't reset anymore.

If it matters: Drive C and E are local drives, drive P is a mounted network share.

I guess it's from select-on-paste (hard-coded). It selects the incoming files. That's expected. A dilemma that cannot be solved.

Nope, it selects nothing, even so if it were to select the incoming files it would be impossible because I'm not in the folder where the files are being copied/moved to, the file(s) being written to the current directory are coming from other program. If I remember correctly this didn't happen before though I can't be 100% sure I've tried to select files in a folder where files were being written to while a move operation was being processed before.

Untick this: Configuration | General | Refresh, Icons, History | Auto-Refresh | Refresh during file operations