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I have a Mac OS X 10.2.8 machine that is exhibiting a strange problem. It seems as though drag & drop is broken! If you try to drag an icon in the Finder, the icon highlights but does not move with the cursor at all! It's not a snap to grid problem; you can't drag an icon from the Mac to a server volume (for instance) to copy it there.

Similarly, you can't drag messages in Entourage from the Inbox to another folder.

I tried creating a new user account to see if it was a user-preferences issue, but the problem persisted, so it's something systemwide.

This certainly appears to be a system software problem (as in not a hardware issue).

Any ideas?

[cybergoober]

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Originally posted by cybergoober:
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Thanks. I'll try it.

[Judge_Fire]

Wasn't this something related to Finder prefs... ?

Anyway, it was quite common in 10.2 so a bit of searching should come up with a result - sorry for being so vague...

J

[ryju]

You could try simply restarting the finder (Option-Control click on the Finder icon click Restart) and trash prefs/repair permissions.

This happened to me once, I restarted the Finder and it hasn't happened again.

[dtriska]

Originally posted by ryju:
This happened to me once, I restarted the Finder and it hasn't happened again.

What he said.

[CharlesS]

Sometimes this can happen if either pbs or coreservicesd isn't running for some reason. Check Activity Viewer to see if both of those are running. If one of them isn't, you can start it in the Terminal like this:

/System/Library/CoreServices/pbs &

or this:

/System/Library/CoreServices/coreservicesd &