Can no longer cut/copy/paste and drag items with my mouse

I can no longer cut/copy and paste items. I've tried restarting and loading all updates, but that didnt help. I can also no longer drag items using my mouse. This includes in programs and on my desktop. Any ideas?

Chitown2000 wrote:
I can no longer cut/copy and paste items. I've tried restarting and loading all updates, but that didnt help. I can also no longer drag items using my mouse. This includes in programs and on my desktop. Any ideas?
Many months ago I had a problem with my mouse on my iMac G5. Basically, I just wasn't able do much with my mouse anymore, sorta like you. It was terrible, having a mouse but not being able to do much with it.
Is your problem the same one I have? Don't know, but it sure sounds familiar. I did manage to fix the problem by accident, because I'm not really sure what I did to fix it, but I wrote down the incident what I was doing when it was corrected. I stored it away just in case it ever happened again.
I don't even remember what forum I was on when I wrote this, but here's what I wrote and maybe it will help, hopefully:
*Ok everybody, I finally got proper behavior, it's just too bad I'm not sure of the procedure.*
*"When I go to bed I usually run the mouse pointer to the upper left corner to activate the screensaver. Of course it didn't work. But I also knew that clicking a button causes the mouse to be sensed, so I was pushing some of the buttons while in the corner to see if I could get the screensaver going.*
*Well, after doing this, everything is back to normal operation again. So, I fixed it totally by accident. Makes me wonder if there's some features that are turned on and off somehow by doing whatever it was I did up in that corner."*

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