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In Ventura 13.2.1 I have lost a drag-and-drop function: Using Finder, click and drag a file to hover over a different folder, and that folder should open to allow "drop". But it no longer opens. Tried 'safe mode', nothing. Tried Accessibility-Pointer Control - Spring Loading: no change. Tried clicking space-bar while hovering: nothing. This is an essential function for file organization: how can I get it back?
iMac (M1, 2021)
tehannah wrote:
In Ventura 13.2.1 I have lost a drag-and-drop function: Using Finder, click and drag a file to hover over a different folder, and that folder should open to allow "drop". But it no longer opens. Tried 'safe mode', nothing. Tried Accessibility-Pointer Control - Spring Loading: no change. Tried clicking space-bar while hovering: nothing. This is an essential function for file organization: how can I get it back?
Finder>Settings>Accessibility
reboot if necessary
still no resolve—SafeBoot How to use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support will sort many anomalies
tehannah wrote:
In Ventura 13.2.1 I have lost a drag-and-drop function: Using Finder, click and drag a file to hover over a different folder, and that folder should open to allow "drop". But it no longer opens. Tried 'safe mode', nothing. Tried Accessibility-Pointer Control - Spring Loading: no change. Tried clicking space-bar while hovering: nothing. This is an essential function for file organization: how can I get it back?
Finder>Settings>Accessibility
reboot if necessary
still no resolve—SafeBoot How to use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support will sort many anomalies
Turning on Spring Loading did it for me. Thanks.
Thank you leroydouglas, but I had already done all that. No result. Mac Chat support could not help. Spent 75 minutes on phone with Mac tech support, they could replicate problem but no solution. They did confirm it is not a systemic problem with Ventura, so that's good. It is in the hands of the Apple engineers now...
I can drag a file or folder over another folder on Ventura 13.2.1 and that target folder automatically opens. I am using the same settings as leroydouglas shows in his screenshot with the exception the spring-loading speed for me is set just slightly to the right of mid-scale.
Opening folders via drag-and-drop in Finder
