Open files in Mountain Lion

I c an´t open files in Mountain Lion. When i open a file on desktop or elsewhere, it close Finder an a cannot reach my stuff. I have new harddrive, new systen in my new fresh harddrive. I tryed another harddrive. I moved my harddrive.
I have Macpro 2008, 2x 2.8. 10 GB memory.

Open Finder, press Option key, select Go > Library, open Preferences, delete com.apple.finder.plist, go to  > Force Quit and restart Finder. If it doesn't work, do a backup, press Command and R keys in boot, open Disk Utility, erase the disk and install OS X

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HT2476 Can't drag files in mountain lion.

Hi there... I am in serious need of help.
I clean installed Mountain Lion no problems, everything seems to be a little quicker even... .a bonus.
But then I stumbled across something.
I am unable to move or drag files around.
Let's say I have a file jpg in the desktop, and I want to move it to the pictures folder... Normally I would just hold down the trackpad, and physically move it in to the open pictures finder... but it just will not move. I can select it, open it, rename it, everything... but I just cannot drag anything anywhere.
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At the moment I am copy/pasting everything, which is time consuming and sooo annoying you have no idea.
I just wanted to move a AVI from my downloads to the desktop. I had to copy, paste, then delete from downloads... ***?!?!
Am I the only one experiencing this problem??
Please let me know.

Paul.Urmston wrote:
Hi there... I am in serious need of help.
I clean installed Mountain Lion no problems, everything seems to be a little quicker even... .a bonus.
But then I stumbled across something.
I am unable to move or drag files around.
Let's say I have a file jpg in the desktop, and I want to move it to the pictures folder... Normally I would just hold down the trackpad, and physically move it in to the open pictures finder... but it just will not move. I can select it, open it, rename it, everything... but I just cannot drag anything anywhere.
Lets say the jpg on my desktop needs work and I want to open it in Photoshop. I have the Photoshop icon in my Dock, and for years have simply dragged whatever jpg onto the PHotoshop icon in the Dock to open it.. .but now I can't.
At the moment I am copy/pasting everything, which is time consuming and sooo annoying you have no idea.
I just wanted to move a AVI from my downloads to the desktop. I had to copy, paste, then delete from downloads... ***?!?!
Am I the only one experiencing this problem??
Please let me know.
Try the Mountain Lion forums.
Cheers
Pete

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