Red Box (stroke only) that I can't delete? on image

Hi Allan,

so the object that is there is insensitive to mouse clicks.

There are a couple of reasons for this.
- The object could be locked (try Objects -> Unlock all, to unlock)
- The object could be on a locked layer (open the layers dialog and check if any of them has a closed lock icon, click on it to change)
- and there may be some less obvious reasons.

If the first two hints don't help, please share the SVG file. You can remove any private objects from it first, if you need to, and replace a couple of them by non-private stuff, just so it's easier to explain what's wrong.

You can upload the file to imgh.us or framadrop.org (or to some other file hoster) and share the link.

Kind Regards,
 Maren

Hi Hachmann, I ended up selecting all, cutting and pasting to a new page
which got me around the problem for now. I'll try your solutions if it
happens again, as it's really annoying when this happens...thanks...Allan

On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 8:28 PM, Hachmann <
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> Your question #632445 on Inkscape changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/632445
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> Status: Open => Answered
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> Hachmann proposed the following answer:
> Hi Allan,
>
> so the object that is there is insensitive to mouse clicks.
>
> There are a couple of reasons for this.
> - The object could be locked (try Objects -> Unlock all, to unlock)
> - The object could be on a locked layer (open the layers dialog and check
> if any of them has a closed lock icon, click on it to change)
> - and there may be some less obvious reasons.
>
> If the first two hints don't help, please share the SVG file. You can
> remove any private objects from it first, if you need to, and replace a
> couple of them by non-private stuff, just so it's easier to explain
> what's wrong.
>
> You can upload the file to imgh.us or framadrop.org (or to some other
> file hoster) and share the link.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Maren
>
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Thanks for the advice...Allan

You're welcome, Allan - hope it helped ;-)

I just had an identical problem. It turned out I was part way through a spell check. Completing the spell check removed the red box.

I realise this post is old , but hope this addition solves a head scratcher for someone...