Unable to drag and drop, copy and paste

about once a week i loose the ability to drag files in my finder. at the same time
i also loose the ability to copy and paste text in/between applications. also,
cannot drag text from a web page or document and create a clipping to the
desktop. this has been happening since tiger, and possibly even with
panther though i don't remember for sure. during that time i have performed a clean reinstall (for other reasons) and the bug is still around. logging out fixes it. restarting the finder has no e

Hi Denny, it sounds like LaunchServices. You can download OnyX and use it to reset LaunchServices, or do it manually, by quitting any open apps then
navigate to /library/caches/com.apple.LaunchServices-xxxxx.csstore. You may have more than one with different negative numbers. Delete all of these.
Then navigate to ~(yourhome)/library/preferences/com.apple.launchservices.plist and delete this also.
Then log out and back in. Or restart. Let us know.
-mj
[email protected]

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