M1 MacBook Air - Drag and Drop

Hi leanne,

Thanks for the response. I thought I' replied earlier but my reply is not showing up.

1. Happens all the time
2. Not error messages, SWOD simply appears and then goes away after a while. In some Apps Force Quit is required to get rid of SWOD.
3. Yes, following all the right procedure, happens with both mouse and trackpad.
4. No other problems other than Apps which are running Intel code taking a while to start up - probably emulation software doing its thing. Tried all the standard fixes for slow Macs, Disk Repair, relaunch finder, etc

Made some progress with Apple Tech support via Chat. Seems the hardware is OK and the problem only exists with one user. We used Migration Assistant to transfer info from an old Dell Laptop after we set up the user and the suspicion is that Migration Assistant.

Set up a new user and everything works fine for that user, so the problem is likely the result of something going wrong with migration assistant.

I think the best option is to manually transfer files, pictures, mail folders and contacts via a hard drive rather than relying on Migration Assistant to do the job.

Any comment or advice would be appreciated.

Best regards

Bill

Hi Leanne,

Solved the problem by deleting the problem user. Adding a new account, doing the setup and then transferring documents, pictures, movies etc via a hard drive. Took a while but all works now and no further problems with the M1 MacBook.

Seems to me that the problem was caused by Migration Assistant.

Cheers

Bill