I can no longer drag files or folders. Why?

I was in the middle of dragging music into a folder and in the midst of it all it would no longer let me drag any file, photo, song or any folder around. Please help!

Please describe in detail all you have attempted to do in order to resolve the issue.  Did you restart your computer?

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