# Selection tool bug: Making item visible in folders alters the selection randomly?
**URL:** https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/selection-tool-bug-making-item-visible-in-folders-alters-the-selection-randomly/17159
**Category:** Modeling Questions
**Created:** [February 1, 2022, 3:00am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/selection-tool-bug-making-item-visible-in-folders-alters-the-selection-randomly/17159 "2022-02-01T03:00:26Z")
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### Author:  [@Oregonerd](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Oregonerd)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2022, 3:00am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/selection-tool-bug-making-item-visible-in-folders-alters-the-selection-randomly/17159/1 "2022-02-01T03:00:26Z")
Selecting a group of faces, then opening the folder panel and making an item visible alters/ loses the selection. Grrrrr.
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### Author:  [@John\_Shapr3D](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/John_Shapr3D)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2022, 3:43pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/selection-tool-bug-making-item-visible-in-folders-alters-the-selection-randomly/17159/2 "2022-02-03T15:43:22Z")
Hi,
I believe what is happening here is that your sketches and body face are on the same plane. When a body face is on a sketch plane it changes the sketch filling the same way a sketch would. Therefore when you select your sketch and sketch filling (with the body hidden) and then unhide the body, the edges of the body face acts as a sketch and this alters the sketch filling causing it to be dropped. If you don’t want this to happen you could leave a small space between your body face and sketch plane. Please let us know if this does not solve your problem
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### Author:  [@Jagey](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Jagey)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2022, 5:31pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/selection-tool-bug-making-item-visible-in-folders-alters-the-selection-randomly/17159/3 "2022-02-03T17:31:48Z")
I’m not sure this is inevitable - I’ve tried it with a selection of objects, opened a folder and made another object visible without losing the previous selection - I was careful to hit the shaded ‘eye’ icon rather than the object name - does that make a difference for you? @Oregonerd
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### Author:  [@Oregonerd](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Oregonerd)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2022, 5:46pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/selection-tool-bug-making-item-visible-in-folders-alters-the-selection-randomly/17159/4 "2022-02-14T17:46:11Z")
Sorry, haven’t had time to revisit the issue. I was making a demonstration for someone here when I had the “problem”? Not really vested in going back at this time.
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### Author:  [@Oregonerd](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Oregonerd)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2022, 5:50pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/selection-tool-bug-making-item-visible-in-folders-alters-the-selection-randomly/17159/5 "2022-02-14T17:50:33Z")
Without understanding the nature of the problem, I did in fact move/ lower the body as you describe and it solves it somewhat.
I intended extrudes in both directions to make multiple parts from a single drawing.