Drag and drop mail attachments

With the new version of mail Version 8.0 (1990.1) (Yosemite) I cannot drag and drop attachments to Finder like in the previous version.
Rather, I have to select the attachments, save attachments as, then locate the folder etc in Finder to complete a previously very simple action.
Is there a setting to re-enable this?
As I organise dozens of attachments every day, the former process was much more time-effective.

I seem to have solved this problem, which was that my daughter (on Windows) could not save attachments that I sent her in emails, and had other problems.
My solution is:
1. Mail > Edit >Attachments: Check "Always insert attachments at end of message".
2. After composing the text of a message in Mail, drag your image or its icon on to Mail's window and drop the icon at the end of the message. Voila (for me at least). If you drop the image icon at the top of the text, the image gets transmitted but not the text (!!!) (Ain't Apple wonderful!).
3. My daughter sees the image, opened, at the bottom of the message and by Right-Clicking on it she can save the image (she typed .jpg after the image title and got a jpg.)
Hope this works for you.

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