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Can't Drag and Drop in iTunes.

Hey,

I can't drag and drop songs to Playlists, my iPod or anything on iTunes. It's been going on for quite a few versions, and with every new release I hope it will get fixed, but it hasn't. In fact, it's got worse. Usually, I have to reboot iTunes a couple of times and I'll usually get a couple of drag/drops in before it stops working again. It's not ideal, but at least it was an intermittent problem. Since iTunes 10, it's permanently broken. No drag/drops. Ever. It's turned my iPod (which is only 2GB, and nowhere near the memory capacity needed for my 60GB+ library of music; auto-sync is not an option) into a chore to use, and I was wondering if anyone had any tips for a workaround, or even a complete fix.

Thanks very much!

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Sep 14, 2010 3:08 AM

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Oct 25, 2010 11:47 AM in response to LeeSimpson

I am having a similar problem. For some time I have had sudden loss of drag and drop so that I cannot even move a song around in a playlist, much less to another list. The only thing that stops the is a full system reboot. I have been waiting for a fix however version 10 is much worse. I am having this fail almost every day. I am running an internet radio show from my computer and use iTunes to set up playlists. When I have this problem happen, I have to kick my listeners off and reboot. This is NOT an acceptable situation. I am running iTunes 10.01 on a 2.8 GHz Core i7 iMac with 8 GB of onboard memory. This problem has been happening since at least version 9, however.
Somebody at Apple please fix this! Or tell me a workaround that does not involve me closing all other programs There is no excuse for this problem continuing.

Aug 11, 2011 9:17 AM in response to LeeSimpson

Yes, I have the same problem, I can't drag songs around into playlists and more irritatingly i can't drag songs within a playlist.


I've tried loging in and out of mac and itunes, restarted, I ejected my iphone and i seemed to be able to drag a few times. now I can't drag at all again.


This is a serious pain, as all i want to do is drag songs around in playlists.


Any ideas?

Can't Drag and Drop in iTunes.

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