I can no longer drag and drop my bookmarks or url icons

All of a sudden I can no longer drag and drop my bookmarks around the sidebar or drag url icons into the toolbar or sidebar. The problem seems to have coincided with the download of 3.6.14. The only other thing I did around that time was download Adobe Reader X (10.0.1).

YOu're not looking in the right palce. That's inside the iPhoto Application.
You need to look inside the iPhoto Library
As I sid above:
Go to your Pictures Folder and find the iPhoto Library there
Regards
TD

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Can no longer drag and drop anything

I've been searching the forums for an answer, but can't seem to find this topic. I can no longer drag and drop anything in the finder. I first noticed this when trying to drag and drop songs in iTunes to a playlist -- nothing would "drop."
Now I've noticed that I can't drag and drop anything anywhere. No files will drop to software, I can't drag files from one folder to another, nor can I drop files to a different hard drive.
This was all working fine yesterday, and I haven't made any changes to my system in the interim. All I've done is restart after discovering the problem, but that didn't fix anything.
Any ideas?

Where have you looked? What did you use? Double-click on the boot volume's Desktop icon, CMD+J, select list view, click on Users triangle, then your username's triangle, then its Library triangle, then its Preferences triangle. In that folder is com.apple.finder.plist. It exists for all user accounts. Without it, your machine won't work.

With new Photos app, I can no longer drag and drop photos into other applications as I did in the past with iPhoto.

With the new Photos app, I can no longer drag and drop photos into other applications as I did with iPhoto. For instance, I have a photo collage app that in the past, I could just drag in the photos I wanted to include. Now, I can DRAG the photos, but they do not DROP. So, I have to go through the export process. It is tedious. What am I missing? Where can I turn on the drag and drop feature for Photos?

YOu're not looking in the right palce. That's inside the iPhoto Application.
You need to look inside the iPhoto Library
As I sid above:
Go to your Pictures Folder and find the iPhoto Library there
Regards
TD

I can no longer drag and drop songs.

I can no longer drag and drop songs into playlists that are resident in iTunes nor can I drag songs directly on to my iPods
(Nano and Shuffle). I have re-installed the most recent version of iTunes and it did not help.
Thanks

found solution, thanx everyone

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Now all is updated, I can no longer drag and drop video attachments from e-mail to i-photo !
Anyone help ?

In the Mail window Command (right) - click on the movie and select either Save Attachment or Save to Downloads Folder from the contextual menu.
Or move the cursor to the dividing line between the head and body of the email so these options appear and click on the attachment button.
OT

Can no longer drag and drop photos to a backup harddrive.

New to Mac
I have previously been able to drag photos, I don't recall if individually or in events, to a backup hardrive. It appears I have lost the ability to do so. I am unsure if I am now doing it incorrectly or there is some fault in the OS. I was successful weeks ago, then I failed at an attempt. I tried again recently with no luck. I select the pics and get the green + and then the white striped circle as I hold the images over any portion of the backup drive. I tried the Helvetica font toggle and a restart with no luck. I enabled sharing in the iphoto preferences........... Suggestions? Btw the time machine backup seems to be working to a different hard drive.
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Matt

What I'm not sure about: Can you simpyl drag and drop to the desktop?
If not the
Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one. .
Regards
TD

I can no longer drag and drop pages into my bookmarks toolbar in the new firefox

I uninstalled firefox to try google crome. Now i have uninstalled crome, and gone back to firefox. After restarted my computer i put the bookmark toolbar up but i can no longer drag sites into the bar. When i do it opens them in a whole new window.
When i used this before i would have saved tabs in my bookmarks for easy use,
Is this a bug or am i doing somthing wrong
Thanks
Mandy

for me the problem was caused by the Torbutton add-on.
I have read that there are about 5 or 6 other add-ons that also inhibit Drag and Drop functionality, not just the Torbutton add-on. The list is somewhere in the main Firefox support section (but it's tough to find the answer there twice).
The generic add-on troubleshooting page is at:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Troubleshooting-extensions-themes#w_disable-all-extensions

I can no longer drag and drop bookmarks

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Any luck if you keep the Ctrl key pressed when dragging the link to initiate a copy?
Start Firefox in <u>[[Safe Mode|Safe Mode]]</u> to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem.
*Switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance
*Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

I can no longer drag and drop things in Photoshop Elements 12. I can move things with my keyboard, but not my mouse. WHAT IS HAPPENING?!

When I got Elements 12 (May 2014), I was able to drag and drop things such as cut/pasted items, watermarks, etc. As of 2 weeks ago, I can no longer use my mouse to drag and drop. If I try, it just snaps back wherever it was before I tried to drag it. With that said, the item will move if I use my keyboard. It takes an eternity. WHAT IS GOING ON?! I just really want to use my mouse again...

Install the 10.10.1 update. That should do it.

I can no longer drag and drop a website onto my desktop. NOW I have to go through hoops to get anything I want onto my desktop ! this *****

I had Leopard. I jumped to Mountain Lion. Sorry sorry sorry I did.   Many things are stupidly difficult to do, minor tasks, that once were EASY.
I USED to be able to go onto a website, then DRAG AND DROP the ICON from it ONTO my desktop. NO MORE.   Frankly, there is NOW no easy way that I've found ..........May I also say, Mountain Lion is one horrendous piece of ........##@@!!!.   I gave my old iMac to a friend after upgrading it for her...with Mountain Lion.   I wish to God I'd not tormented her with that OSX. I wish to God I'd not tormented myself with it on my own iMac.
Someone tell me......there MUST be an easy way to Drag/drop a website to my desktop for regular use??? IF NOT, we have YET another glitch on this stupid OSX.
I have 10.8.2. 2.5GHz Intel Core i5 4GB 21.5 screen (2011)

I realize my post made me appear UNcalm. Sorry. I am rather irritated by this and have been.
When I now go to any website, I can only go on it by clicking FULL page. In other words, I can get to it by 2 ways, by putting it into the "google" bar, or by FULL screening to type in http....www....etc.
I am then in Full screen to access any website. THEN,   I can no longer drag/drop the website's Icon to my desktop.......If I diminish, I lose the website. It may bring up the same site, but will not let me drag the site's icon ONTO my desktop to use in the future.
That seems to have disappeared with Mountain Lion. I was able to do it with ease on Leopard.
Repeat:
In Leopard, I would go to a website and could drag that website's icon ONTO my desktop. Period.
I am no longer able to do this with Mountain Lion.
If I try to drag anything, NOTHING happens OTHER than it replicates the page...it does not place an icon on my desktop to use in the future.
I am CALM. I AM frustrated.

After installing iTunes 10.5.1, I can no longer drag and drop files into iTunes. Any suggestions?

Basically when I try to drag files from a folder into iTunes, (drag and drop within iTunes is fine) the little picture of the circle with a slash through it shows up and wont allow me to drop it into iTunes. Does anyone know why this is happening and what I can do to fix it? Thanks. I'm so frustrated I'm about to smash my computer. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, restarting my computer, everything I can think of.

just want to add my annoyance to the pile here. I can't see any logic behind removing the drag and drop function, especially when adding a new folder is now a multi-step process that is far from obvious. to start a new playlist with local folder content you now need to:enter settingsclick into advanced settings (basically all settings now seem to be "advanced"?)manually find and add the foldergo through the adventure of finding the files in your library.
-- because they may or may not be listed under "local files" - you won't know because Ctrl+F is also removed. so you have to remember/know what the album you added is called and search for that. if you have a mixed bag of file names from various albums, you're basically shafted; there's no way to find them all with a single search.then you can add them to playlisteta: but wait! there's more! if you have more than 15 files? you're **bleep** out of luck, because the search will only display the first 15 hits among your local files, and then show you spotify library tracks.I can't help but feel as though spotify is doing everything they can to stop us using spotify to listen to local files, as bugs that make it more or less impossible persist through multiple versions - and now features that seem to me to be basic functionality are being removed?mega minus points from someone who's been using spotify since 2008.

Can no longer drag and drop in iTunes

I've seen this addressed in a recent thread but that thread seemed to involve the Wacom tablet, which I don't have. I found today that I could no longer drag songs in iTunes at all, not even to add to a playlist, never mind moving from my computer to my iPod Touch. (But I was able to drag songs from the Finder to the iTunes window and add them to the Touch that way. Still, not a solution, just a workaround.) The only thing this has in common with the Wacom problem is that this might be the first time I've tried to move songs around in iTunes since I got and set up my Apple Magic Trackpad. Could some setting in Preferences be keeping this from working? I tried using a wireless Magic Mouse but that didn't work either. Any thoughts? I have 2008 MacBook with 10.6.8, iTunes 10.5.2, iPT has OS 4.2.1.

Thanks, Steve.
As you found, when I showed the sidebar copy and paste started working. Why? I don't know, but it was progress.
However, drag and drop from the library to a playlist, from a playlist to a playlist or even within a playlist simply does not work.
I spent a long time talking to Apple people, eventually going to a supervisor. However, we had no success after trying a number of things.
They have sent a ticket to Apple engineers. I look forward to hearing from them.

I can no longer drag and drop anything in iTunes.

Last week, for no apparent reason, I stopped being able to drag and drop songs in my playlists or reorder my app in itunes. I upgraded to itunes 11 to see if that helps but the problem persists.

Thanks, Steve.
As you found, when I showed the sidebar copy and paste started working. Why? I don't know, but it was progress.
However, drag and drop from the library to a playlist, from a playlist to a playlist or even within a playlist simply does not work.
I spent a long time talking to Apple people, eventually going to a supervisor. However, we had no success after trying a number of things.
They have sent a ticket to Apple engineers. I look forward to hearing from them.

Can no longer drag and drop icons

Hello All
All of a sudden no users on my mac can "drag and drop" on desktop in finder or in the dock. can move open windows. have tried my old mouse and just the same
also firefox stopped working at the same time wont load!
Help please

Hi again,
I am sorry that didn't work. The only other thing i can think of is, have you checked the setting in each user account? In system preferences, users or user accounts (sorry i am on a PC at the moment so can't remember what it is called)
I know there is a setting in there to stop users making changes to the dock, maybe this has changed and that is causing these problems?

Can no longer drag and drop into my iPhone after iOS 7.0.3.

I'm not entirely sure what is up with this but it's excruciatingly frustrating.
I updated my iPhone 4S 64GB to iOS 7.0.3 the other day. When I plugged it into my car to play some music I noticed that most of the songs in my playlists showed up as being on the phone but they would be skipped over until the music app came to a song that was purchased in Itunes on the phone.
So, I plugged the phone into my PC thinking that it needed to be synced. I then noticed that all the songs on my phone have dotted grey circles beside them.
I deleted all the music off the phone and attempted to drag and drop files from my library back into the phone. As I already have 'Manage Music' checked, this normally resulted in the songs effortlessly being hurled through cyberspace or via a cord to my iPhone.
Now, however, all my songs that I attempt to place on my phone show up as greyed-out with Mr. Dotted Circle beside them.
What the gee-golly-willikers is this all about?

Have you checked the manually manage music box?

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