|
|
Drag & Drop broken, can't move icons!
|
|
|
|
Forum Regular
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Brookfield, CT, USA
Status:
Offline
|
|
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?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Newport News, VA USA
Status:
Offline
|
|
Search VerionTracker or MacUpdate for Dragster�
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Forum Regular
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Brookfield, CT, USA
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by cybergoober:
Search VerionTracker or MacUpdate for Dragster�
Thanks. I'll try it.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Status:
Offline
|
|
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
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Aug 2002
Status:
Offline
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Canada
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by ryju:
This happened to me once, I restarted the Finder and it hasn't happened again.
What he said.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Dec 2000
Status:
Offline
|
|
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 &
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Forum Rules
|
|
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
|
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|