Can't drag songs in playlists

I'm not able to drag songs within most of my playlists. I can drag and drop them INTO my playlists but can't drag once they're inside the lists. Does anyone know how I can correct this?

There's also a chance that you have a certain collumn header active which causing this.
Look in your iTunes Help > playlists
for more info regarding this.

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smart playlist or dumb playlist or even the main music library) into other (dumb) playlist.
As a workaround, I can copy (cmd-c) and paste (cmd-v), but this is ... umm ... sub-optimal, because you have to change playlists to do it. Then when you go back to the first folder, any search you might have used before is now gone.
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Well. My first efforts to search for a solution were poorly executed, because I tried again and found lots of answers.
The problem appears to be using a Wacom driver. See the discussion here and (same thread) here and here. No idea when that will be fixed. I use a 8 or 9 year old Graphire, and drivers have been a problem for most of those. Sigh.
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Open disk utility and select your hard drive, repair permissions and verify disk on your startup volume. Then reboot your computer. If the problem persists, then create a new user account on your computer and determine if the problem occurs in this new account. If it doesn't, then your user account in corrupt and you will need to export all of our files to a new account. If the problem does continue, you might want to run a program called AppleJack(do a Google search for it). If that doesn't work, you might need to Achieve and Install you system.

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Before anyone suggests the following I have tried this already:
•restarted itunes
•restarted mac
•made sure shuffle is turned off
•made sure the playlist order is selected
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Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to offer.
-Luke

Apple does not post or respond to these user-to-user forums.
Apple very, very rarely shares what they are working on so there is no way of knowing if Apple is working on this issue. I highly doubt any Apple employees who may be working on it would risk their job by talking about it
Ed is definitely helping this thread by answering your question in a forthright and respectful manner.
this thread is not at all inappropriate for this forum
Who said it was inappropriate?
You still will not get an answer from Apple.

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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3198387?start=0&tstart=0

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Are you sure it's not a "Smart" Playlist that you've created?
Otherwise ... I'm not sure what the problem might be.
You may consider deleting iTunes and reinstalling it. Make sure you back up your two data files.
This would probably fix the problem.
Good luck!
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