'Select with' gone mad

#1

Hi everyone,

 I came across a weird issue in blender 2.49b:
 My selection method is preset to LMB, but today it suddenly changed to RMB - but not completely: now if in ObjectMode it's RMB and in EditMode it's LMB :surprised. This only occurs in one file. If I create a new one everything works like normal.
 
 The 'Select with' setting in the preferences is still on LMB and toggling to RMB and back does not help. This behaviour doesn't even stop if I reload factory settings and load the file without UI, so the error seems to have been saved into my precious file.
 Perhaps I accidentally pressed a special shortcut, but I don't think there is one for changing this setting.

If all else fails I still can append all the geometry into a fresh file, but perhaps there is an easier solution to this ?

 If anyone has an idea, please tell me.
#2

I’m not sure what may have caused this,
but have you tried appending all the relevant data from you .blend to a new file?

perhaps it’ll help, can’t make any promises though,
as I have never encountered the problem. :surprised

#3

So I appended all objects to a new file and the error has gone - I hope it stays that way.

 Thanks !

Edit:
Cheered too soon - now I added a cylinder but it has no layer or geometry and can only be deleted from the outliner :argh:
There is something evil in this file - any idea if I can open it in a text editor (gedit does only show descriptions but no values) for some manual exorcism ?

#4

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