[egghead]

Anybody else have weird problems with the list view in the Leopard finder?

It seems that I can't use drag and drop to move multiple items from a Finder window in List view to any other window. It's possible to select multiple items (eg, select all) but how is one supposed to move these? Trying to drag them just seems to cause the finder to forget the selection. I have tried this on two machines, and have the same problem in each case.

Am I missing something here? This should be easy....

[Chuckit]

Are you actually clicking on the name or icon when you drag? If you drag in the white space in the item's row, you'll wind up starting a new drag-selection.

[egghead]

Thanks -- It doesn't matter where I drag, it just doesn't work reliably. It works sometimes, in some windows, but eventually stops. I have no problem with icon or colunm view. It seems to me like a bug or meta data corruption or something, but I can't figure out what it is.

Here's another report of the same problem (but alas no fix):

Apple - Support - Discussions - Can't drag files/folders in list view ...

[JKT]

My first suspicion (other than a bug in Finder) would be that you have e.g. an Input Manager or Contextual Menu Item (or other system hack such as APE) installed that is interfering with the normal working of the finder. Check the equivalently named folders in your ~/Library/ and /Library/ folders to see if you have anything in them and if so, remove them to e.g. the desktop, restart your Mac, to disable them and try again.