diff --git a/src/blackgui/views/viewbase.cpp b/src/blackgui/views/viewbase.cpp
index 07e9028a7..c9c5407f3 100644
--- a/src/blackgui/views/viewbase.cpp
+++ b/src/blackgui/views/viewbase.cpp
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ namespace BlackGui
             if (this->isEmpty()) { return 0; }
 
             const int currentRows = this->rowCount();
-            const ContainerType selected(selectedObjects());
+            const ContainerType selected(this->selectedObjects());
             const CVariant deletedObjsVariant = CVariant::from(selected);
             int delta = 0;
 
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ namespace BlackGui
             }
             else
             {
-                ContainerType unselectedObjects(container());
+                ContainerType unselectedObjects(this->container());
                 unselectedObjects.removeIfInSubset(selected);
                 this->updateContainerMaybeAsync(unselectedObjects);
                 delta = currentRows - unselectedObjects.size();
diff --git a/src/blackgui/views/viewbasenontemplate.cpp b/src/blackgui/views/viewbasenontemplate.cpp
index 074efaa65..e17e56411 100644
--- a/src/blackgui/views/viewbasenontemplate.cpp
+++ b/src/blackgui/views/viewbasenontemplate.cpp
@@ -466,12 +466,17 @@ namespace BlackGui
 
         QModelIndexList CViewBaseNonTemplate::selectedRows() const
         {
-            return this->selectionModel()->selectedRows();
+            // make sure this is ordered by row and wee keep the same order as in unselectedRows
+            // if we'd know for sure the indexes are always sorted we can remove the sorting here
+            // Qt docu selectedIndexes: Returns a list of all selected model item indexes. The list contains no duplicates, and is not sorted.
+            QModelIndexList indexes = this->selectionModel()->selectedRows();
+            qSort(indexes);
+            return indexes;
         }
 
         QModelIndexList CViewBaseNonTemplate::unselectedRows() const
         {
-            QModelIndexList selected = this->selectedRows();
+            const QModelIndexList selected = this->selectedRows();
             QModelIndexList unselected;
             const int rows = this->rowCount();
             for (int r = 0; r < rows; r++)