Problems dragging files

My computer stopped allowing me to drag files or any other icons from one place to another. This is all over my computer I can't drag icons on the desktop or in finder, I can't even drag music files in garageband.
Please post anything that might fix this problem.

More information would help, like if this has always been a problem or started after some event, like a crash, installing new software, or anything else you can think of that might be relevant.
Also, have you done any troubleshooting, for instance running both of Disk Utility's First Aid checks? Restarted? Created a new test user account?

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