Q: Drag and drop stops working in maverick

am running maverick and now i cant add attachment by dropping and dragging the file to a new email. when i try to drag the attachment and drop it to the new email it goes away.

please  help, i never had that problem on lion.

i havent, but now am going to do that. thank you!

Mavericks is a dog. It's definitely slower than Mountain Lion. The drag & drop in Finder is less elegant than Mac Classic OS. In addition, Finder crashes doing simple tasks; copying files, seraching for files in Spotlight, random Apps appearing when you try to drag & drop from Finder to another app or vice versa.
I can't see anything better in Mavericks, no wonder it was free, just so they could inject some NSA spyware I bet.

+ the worst install process I think I've ever had with stalled installs, etc.....

PS: in Finder, view by DATE, NAME etc is now broken as well, sheesh

curious if anybody else is also experiencing ridiculously slow Finder performance? When I open a new Finder window, and then select a folder, for example, it takes up to 20 seconds typically for the contents of the directory to be displayed. Anybody else experiencing this, as well?

Hello Narwha1

No, I've made a real clean install, reinstalling my apps and files by hand.

A long work, for a not so good result.... shame.

BR

Most annoyingly in Finder the computer makes the "bong" sound as if the drop succeeded, even though nothing was actually copied.  If you can't trust the system when it says it has copied a file, you can't trust the system at all.  Apple has got to fix this soon.

I have seen this issue from day one of Mavericks. and it's even worse when you drag say 50 files or even 100 photo files onto a blank DVD to burn then the whole finder freezes and ejects EVER mounted drive except the boot drive.

I have a 6 core MacPro, 32GB ram , 1GB vram, it happens with both SSD and 7200 rpm drives. It's simply that there is an issue with Mavericks and those saying they don't see the isse are very few compared to those that do.

Updated to 10.9.2 and the problem is still here.  Relaunching Finder fixes it for me, which is more convenient than the reboot that others need.  After the relaunch Finder has cretinously forgotten all my open windows.  My desktop pile of files is just as messy, however.

Same problems, sluggish finder and drag and drop just stops working out of the blue, this are sad times for mac, Steve would have never let basic things like this pass by.

Hi wkhatch,

I meet this problem, especially when I'm connected to my server. i thought it was a connexion problem but...

Each folder takes 5 to 15 seconds to be open the first time.

I'm not sure this is a "mavericks" problem as I did not test the connexion in serveral ways. May be I did not make correctly the connexion, don't know.

This is the same if I'm connected in wifi ou directly to my routeur, from my MBP or my iMac....

And I agree with some of you who think it's better to pay 20 € and have a solid os.

By the way, if some guys from Apple could  tell us they care, and more, make an action, that'll be great. .

Have a slow and nice day... If tried to drag and drop the sun in France... owh sh... it doesn't work

I have the same problem... temporary solution: open Terminal --> type "KillAll Finder" (without quotations) --> Finder restarts --> Works!

An annoying solution, but it seems to work... hopefully a legit fix coming soon.