Moving files by drag and drop

Am I missing a trick in Finder? I have it set to the "three panels" where sub folders are displayed. If I have file in Panel A (leftmost) and I want to drag and drop it into a sub-folder or a folder in Panel A, how do I do it ?!! I can see the sub-folders in Panel B when I click on the main folder in Panel A, but as soon as I click on the stray file in Panel A, all the sub-folders in Panel B go disappear (as I am no longer clicked on the main folder).
What I currently tend to do is drag the file to the desktop and then re-drag it to the sub-folder once I get it to re-display. Sometimes, I'll also try and hold the file while precariously trying to navigate towards the relevant subfolder, but only in times of madness. Either way it seems a very inconvenient making straight forward file movements, and I am wondering if I have something set wrong?

Your best bet is to open a Window to Panel A & another Window to Panel B, or get a Desktop/Finder replacement APP.

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Open Disk Utility and Repair disk permissions on the First Aid tab.
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Does Visual Studio behaves like the following image shows and just hangs when opening your media file?
Do you have any other computer which installs Visual Studio? Can you reproduce this on it?
In order to troubleshoot this issue I think we need to locate the root reason of your issue. The problem can related to the following:
1. Your project is corrupt and VS then trys to load that file when debug finished.
2. Your VS is corrupt and caused this problem.
So please do something below:
1. Try clean and rebuild your project.
2. Switch to some other PCs and use VS and your project there, check if the problem can be reproduced.
3. You can backup your VS setting and try some commands: devenv /resetsettings and devenv /resetuserdata
Details about VS command:https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xee0c8y7.aspx
And based on th research of the above second step, if you can reproduce this issue on more than one PC, the problem is pending on your project and I need you to share a simple sample which can reproduce this issue. We will need to investigate the project
in detail.
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Barry
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I'm still researching your issue, but as an interesting note... This is an issue only when I use a 2013 style workflow. I do not get the error when using a 2010 style workflow.
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tedpratt wrote:
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Message was edited by: madivad

Well, this is getting ore weird!
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...some time later...
Ok.... I've rebooted and everything seems to be back to normal. This has been really weird!
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Disregard and thanks for your time!
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