A way to edit/clear all slices from a file?

[fenomas]

Over the course of editing files, somehow I frequently wind up with a phantom slice in the upper left corner of the file. It cannot be selected or right-clicked with the slice tool. When I use --list-slices on the file, it exports as:

   { "name": "Slice", "color": "#0000ffff", "keys": [{ "frame": 0, "bounds": {"x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 0, "h": 0 } }] },

The problem is, slices like this break batch export. When I export with --split-slices, the affected files export no output at all.

Is there any way to work around this? The only way I've found is to manually reconstruct everything in a new file. Since there doesn't seem to be any way to copy/past frame labels, that means manually recreating hundreds of them.

Thanks..

Aseprite and System version

• Aseprite version: Mac 1.2.16.3

[dacap]

Hi @AndyHall, thanks for all the bug reports. Actually a known-issue of slices is that they do not work in animations. Related to #721

The general idea is (for Aseprite v1.3) to show a row in the timeline for selected slices so we can copy/paste/delete keyframes.

About the deletion of slices that are not visible, check the list of slices in the context bar, where you can select one slice (or all slices pressing the "All" button) and then delete them with the delete button:

[fenomas]

Hi, thanks for the info. The steps you suggest (e.g. pressing "All" and then "Delete") doesn't delete all the slices in the file in question, but it does appear to delete one slice (or slice/frame pair) at a time, so repeating those steps a bunch of times eventually removed the phantom slice. (Visually anyway, I didn't test exporting etc.)

Am I correct in assuming that there's no way to copy/paste frames such that the labels (tags) get pasted along with them? That was the really painful part of recreating the file, was manually recreating the label for each animation.