Project Window - unable to select clips and drag or rearrange

Call me dumb, but I've tried everything to get a clip to drag/move/rearrange within the project window.
I've worked with Mac now for 3 years and it's gotta be simple!!!!
Deb

are you trying to move the clip or the thumbnail???. Be careful with this, the thumbnail displays by default 5 seconds of movie, but it is a continuous movie, although there are vertical bars. In order to move it you will have either to "split before selected clip", or copy and paste, etc., meaning editing.
You can change the length of the thumbnail, down to .5 sec and up to 30 sec. using the bar in the lower right.

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