One of the most frustrating "new features" (lol) of P7 is the temperamental behaviour of the Delete button... Now it works, now it doesn't! I tried cursing it, encouraging, threatening, soft talking, I even played Mozart.... No way!.... Anyone found a way around this (black magic perhaps...)?...

The library pallete holds the keyboard focus once you've clicked on it and the delete key takes you up one level in the folder hierarchy.

I think the trick is to always click on the item your trying to delete before pressing the delete key or use the Figure or Object menu (as appropriate).

I just make sure the item I want to delete is the one selected and that my cursor is actually in the document window ... then I press the delete key and wait.  P7 seems to take it's time deleting things.

Actually I discovered that if you zero your character and then select your object the Delete button works! Which means that if you change your mind and want to remove, say a prop attached to a figure which is already posed, you zero the figure, delete the prop, pose the figure again.... Maybe I should try to play some Wagner... "Gotterdamerung" for example.... :sneaky:

Ah, yes! That's definitely faster and it will do for the time being. Thank you Niles...

The real buggar is the delete key in the cloth room while a simulation is taking place does/doesn't work and if it does it's after 40/50 minutes of wating. The cloth room in P7 is completely hosed compared to P6.

Yeah I have a lot of frustrating problems with P7 cloth room as well, I think it's quicker at doing the math but it has a lot of problems that P6 never gave me.

Keep in mind that P7 seems to "take it's time" because it's actually storing the deleted item in memory. That way, you can hit Undo and bring the item back... yes, that's right- Undo actually works in P7.
In fact, depending on your preference setting, you can undo the deleting of the item even after you've made 10, 20, or 50 changes to your scene.
 
But, yes, like the posters said, P7 still has the "focus" issue where hitting Delete will move you up one Library folder instead of deleting the selected item.