Object Selected in Scene View No Longer Auto Appears in Hierarchy

In the years I've been using Unity, any time I would select an object in the Scene View, that object would appear in the hierarchy. The hierarchy would scroll to a point where the selected object is visible, and it would highlight.

Now, for some reason, the object will still highlight in the Hierarchy, but it no longer automatically scrolls to it. So I have to poke around in the Hierarchy to find the object. If the object is in a sub directory, it can eat up a lot of time to track the thing down.

I suspect this is just a hotkey I accidentally pressed, but couldn't find mention of this anywhere.

Please help! Thanks,

Chris

 

I have the same problem! It's strange, perhaps it's a Unity bug with Lastest Patch Versions?

 

i can't select game objects from water refelction since month now , w8ting for fix but nothing been fixed . the problem start from 5.3.2p2 to 5.3.3 and not single fix yet . Case 769758

 

I found a solution! Unlock the "PadLock" on the Upper Right corner of Hierarchy Window.

 

WAGENHEIMER You are a hero! This was driving me crazy and this fixed it up. Thank you so much!

 

Having this problem with 5.3.6f1, (inspector is not locked)
solved by switching layout to some default one, like 2 by 3, and then back to your own layout..

http://answers.unity3d.com/answers/1158934/view.html

 

AWESOME! That has been bugging me for too long!

 

Thanks man you just saved me

 

This thread saved my day! thanks!

 

@sevensails
Perfect solution...Awesome.....
Big thank you to man, you saved mine so many hours. Thanks a lot.

 

People seem to be having 2 issues here.

1. If you click objects in your scene, the hierarchy view will still focus on the selected object. but the inspector won't change. that's not a bug, its actually a feature
   fix: click on the lock icon in the top right of your inspector window.
   
   
   
2. your inspector isn't locked but the hierarchy won't focus/show the object you select in your scene.
   This does seem to be a bug. (I encountered this after editing my project on a mac, and later on a pc again)
   fix: this, choose a different layout in window - layout
   After that you can reload your own layout again (if you saved it) or rearrange everything to your liking again.

 

Thank you so much!

 

Thanks, this has been driving me crazy for the past few weeks. Had not realized my project hierarchy had a little lock on it.

 

You Literally got rid of my headache quicker than tylenol. Thanks

 

Have to say. This also saved me. Mandatory thanks!

 

Just came across this bug. Inspector was stuck on the selection of one object, and even though I could click on other objects, only that one object showed up in it.

Nothing was locked. Deleting the object from the project didn’t even solve it, the only thing that worked for me was closing and restarting Unity, and just losing the hour or so of unsaved work up until that point.

What a ridiculous bug to have.

 

Mille Grazie

 

Had the same problem, with nothing locked.
@mgear solution with changing layout and then changing it back cleared it.

 

I had this issue also just now, I solved it by clearing the search bar at the top of the hierarchy, somehow, the terrain I was using was in there... Hope this helps someone!

 

thanks lol

 

year 2022 , come to show my gratitude.

 

ty!!

 

I was really wondering what happened to my editor. only to realize I locked it previously.
Thank you. Your comment still helps today.