Dragging Icons stops working after organizing using drag and drop. Why?

On the newest MBA (2013)
While organizing my music I was creating new folders within the artists' folder in order to seperate things into albums. sometimes when im dragging the songs into this newly created folder ( I drag them in  like groups of 10 , really depends on the length of the album) the ability to drag any icon is completely gone. I can still highlight folders and icons but I can no longer move them at all ( using the three finger move on the mouse pad or by holding the click and dragging  )
It only happens when I select and drag a few songs over to the folder and drop them in without waiting for that folder to open up.
This forces me to restart in order to be able to use OSX normally again.
Does anyone have any insight? Do I need to just wait for a new update ?

I found this by EvB on https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4830916
"Try this.
Open a Terminal and type the following commands:
cd /
sudo rmdir tmp
sudo ln -s tmp /private/tmp
If your tmp directory is not already there then the second command will give an error - just proceed to the third command in this case.
Once you have done this sequence, reboot the machine and see if your drag and drop is restored."
Not sure if this fixed the problem or if rebooting temerally fixed it again.
     Nope did not fix it

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