There was no obvious way to select a folder to be restored. selecting the folder merely opened a sub-tree of other folders. The old version was simple, clean and easy to understand. I don’t know why you thought you had to change it?
Please don’t shut down the old UI. This new one really is a major step backwards.
What are you clicking on? Try the folder name (which is different than old UI way).
In the old UI, name seems to just highlight the line without having any other effect.
If that doesn’t solve this, what Duplicati version, OS, and browser show the issue?
EDIT 1:
For example, for me in Microsoft Edge on Windows 10, name selects, icons open.
If I switch to old UI
clicking name highlights, but doesn’t actually select. I have to check mark the box.
Both old and new open the folder to show contents via the leftmost triangular icon.
Old UI ignores click on folder icon, while new UI opens folder to show its contents.
Hi, thanks for the speedy reply!
I’m runnning this on Linux (Arch EndeavourOS, last updated this morning; which broke the desktop XFCE - hence my need for Duplicati, but that’s a whole different story!) The browser is Firefox 146.0.1 (64-bit).
It used to be that you click in the checkbox to select the thing you wanted to restore. I regard that as being bullet-proof, secure and 100% intuitive. You get exactly what you expect when you click somewhere.
With the new one, as you say, in theory, you click on the folder name, to select the whole folder. But parts of the name won’t work. You have to click well within the name.
I have a folder called “.continue”, for example. Clicking on the folder icon, or the leading ‘.’ doesn’t select the folder, it expands it. Clicking on the middle of the ‘c’ selects the folder and all of its contents. If I click slightly too high on the name, it selects the folder above, instead of the one that I want.
It seems that I need to be careful about where Duplicati may think that the mouse is pointing, if I am to get the result that I want.
So, this new UI feels glossy, but a bit sensitive (and therefore unreliable). A backup program to me needs to be bulletproof and something I can depend on. I’m not interested in glossy stuff, I’m interested in rock-solid, reliable backups where, in an emergency, I know that Duplicati can dig me out of a hole without a fuss.
Maybe I’m out of date, but I much prefer the checkboxes and radio buttons on the previous UI. The feedback from what you have chosen is much clearer and unambigious with a checkbox, and you don’t have to be quite so very careful when you click something, in case you miss the “hidden boundary” between being inside and outside a particular hot zone.
Mine is good within name character vertical area, but between names it expands.
Yours selects? Originally you talked about expansion when you wanted selection.
Maybe GUI designers will write about why it’s done as it is, and what the different zones are supposed to do. In my case (maybe not yours) the between-the-names behavior seems wrong for something that’s correct left-right but a bit off vertically.
I’m not sure if I follow the unreliability argument. It seems clear on what’s selected because it boldens. Quite WYSIWIG. If you mis-aim in either UI, try aiming better.
Any small vertical click zone concerns me, but in my environment I don’t get that. Hopefully the GUI devs have a system similar to yours to see what they can see.
On my browser, old UI checkbox is missable, but mouse pointer changes over it.
New UI doesn’t do anything to hint zone, i.e. what happens if you click right then.
I’m not sure if I can “aim better” than I am. I think it should give me feedback on what is active. Here’s another one that is surprising:
What happens if you click to expand a folder and then click to select one file in that folder? For me, nothing happens. I have to click the folder name to highlight all of the members of that folder, then selectively unclick them, except for the one that I want to restore.
Sometimes, when I am unclicking (maybe 20-25 times), it doesn’t catch the “unclick”. I think there’s a debounce in there that may be too aggressive?
It’s woolly but a general feeling that this GUI is trying t reinvent a wheel that has worked very well for decades, and making all of the same mistakes that were fixed in the 1980s 
It does – heavily. Are you not seeing this when active?
Provided “click to expand” uses the common greater-than-sign or the folder icon:
Easy here. One click to expand, one click to select the specific file (or whatever).
You’re sure reporting some odd things that might be specific to your environment rather than design choice. The lack of checkbox seems intended, the glitches are probably not intended. I have no idea if there’s any software control for debounce.
