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I can no longer select a complete bone from its body in edit mode. It only selects the bone end points. I have to use the outliner to select a complete bone.

This only happens on my main computer, both version 2.77 and 2.78. I have installed blender 2.78 on a second computer and things work fine. Has anybody else experienced this? Been looking around in console and input short cuts but I'm lost.

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  • $\begingroup$ Does this happens in pose mode or weight paint mode too? $\endgroup$
    – xlxs
    Commented Oct 12, 2016 at 10:44
  • $\begingroup$ If you post the .blend using Blend Exchange we can take a look. Also, what happens when you load factory settings? $\endgroup$
    – Mentalist
    Commented Oct 12, 2016 at 11:46
  • $\begingroup$ In pose mode everything is all good. I have reset to factory settings a few times now without luck. Some times it will work until I deselect every bone, then it stoppes again. I think I might try to reinstall blender. I have tried a repair from install file without luck. $\endgroup$
    – Svein Arild
    Commented Oct 12, 2016 at 13:23
  • $\begingroup$ @SveinArild Could you please accept and upvote the answer if it was helpful? $\endgroup$
    – Tak
    Commented Jan 26, 2017 at 13:04

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Check in the inspector that you haven't deselected the mouse icon on the bone as this stops objects from being selected.

Hope it helps.

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  • $\begingroup$ I agree, but adding an image, to better show what you mean, as an example, would improve your answer $\endgroup$
    – m.ardito
    Commented Sep 3, 2018 at 8:14
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Do you want to select in python? If so then the below script does it:

import bpy

C = bpy.context
C.object.data.edit_bones[0].select = True #select the root bone
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