Can't drag images from preview drawer?

Can anyone tell me why I can no longer drag an image from the Preview drawer to copy the file to a new location? It was a great way to quickly sort through images in Panther, but now all I get is the white 'not allowed' cursor.

Yeah, annoying isn't it? What I've been doing to sort things is to empty my Trash. Then I can drag images from the Preview thumbs into the Trash. It allows you to MOVE them from where they were into the Trash this way. After I've gotten all of one category moved out, I open Trash and drag them into a new folder. Then I sort thru the remaining pix using my next category, and so on. It's the only way I've found to use Preview even close to the handy way I used to use it in Panther to quickly sort photos. But I don't much like the dis-improvement. BTW, if I remember, I will sometimes launch the old version of Preview that resides on my Panther drive. It still works. You can see animated gifs with it too (another function missing in action in the new Preview).
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