Can't Drag and Drop Anything

Just stumbled on this thread after some weeks tearing my hair out due to this problem.

Only it wasn't exactly as described. It happened to me not just trying drag-and-drop but was 100% reproducible on a particular application (MegaSeg) after just clicking a few things. Happened also in Firefox, Chrome, Finder, Mail...

I DO have AirDisplay installed.

Currently the problem has disappeared. I discovered that a re-instal of Lion directly was not enough. Problem still there. So I did a clean install and restored data and apps from a backup clone. All working so far. Thing is, this re-installed AirDisplay as well. I haven't yet tried to run AirDisplay and am very nervous about doing so.

Why, oh why, does Apple ignore us?

Ha! Wrote too soon. After posting above I clicked on a desktop file and tried to put it somewhere else. ERROR is back again.

Sleep/wake allowed me to write this reply.

So it's goodbye Air Display.

I fixed it - I had AirParrot and AirDisplay and LogMeIN installed. Given the timeline of when I noticed the problem, I believe AirParrot or LogMeIn was the cause of the problem for me.

I ran the AirDisplay uninstaller app and then I deleted the following files and the problem is now gone! YAY

Deleted files were:

AirParrotDriver.kext

APExtFramebuffer.kext

AVFrameBuffer.kext

AVVideoCard.kext

LogMeInSoundDriver32.kext

LogMeInSoundDriver64 7.01.34 PM.kext

LogMeInSoundDriver64.kext

YES I know that logmein files are sound drivers - but I wanted to rule out all apps that could cause the problem.

I thought I was going to have to go through hours of a new install.... Happy I don't have to now.

I think it is a bit disapointing that the installer package for the AirDisplay and AirParrot apps don't give some sort of warning about certain models may experience difficulties.

BTW - I used the "Find Any File.app" to do a search for "Air" and ".kext" and used a bit of fuzzy logic to decide to delete the APExtFramebuffer.kext files and others that were modified or created on the same date as the AirParrotDriver.kext files..

That's my 2 cents....

Delete files were:

AirParrotDriver.kext

APExtFramebuffer.kext

AVFrameBuffer.kext

AVVideoCard.kext

LogMeInSoundDriver32.kext

LogMeInSoundDriver64 7.01.34 PM.kext

LogMeInSoundDriver64.kext

YES I know that logmein files are sound drivers - but I wanted to rule out all apps that could cause the problem.

Hi guys!

In these weeks I have the same problem and before discover my solution, I tried the following points:

1. reinstall Lion 10.7.3 for 2 times!

2. reinstall Snow Leopard

3. uninstall some programs like NTFS Paragon, Total Finder ...

I thounght the problem was the last update of Lion or program that modified the system (NTFS rights, Finder,...)

5 minutes ago, after that I was getting angry again..my girlfriend Liza noticed that just before the problem, I moved by accident the Logitech mouse that I use under Windows-Bootcamp!!!

So we tried "Sleep/wake- mode" but the Dock was anyway locked...

After that Liza said: "Try to unplug the muose that you moved before..." I thought: "are you serius!?!?

I didn't believe it, but magically it solved all problem and the Dock restarted perfectly!

After that I tried to plug the mouse again...and immediately the dock freezed again!

God bless Liza! 😀

Well, 4 days now and everything is still working swell. I guess my problem was caused by uninstalling Java. Seems like that was only one of the causes of the bug that everyone is having.

Well, I really am happy for all you techies who know which files to manipulate and delete to get this thing to work again, but I am fairly clueless when it comes to trying to figure all that out....and who has the time to spend hours doing it?? I can't try them all.....can I?

My drag & drop since installing Lion has been basicly nonexistent except for the occasional random incident

(I keep trying 🙂) It also occasionally picks up items when I don't intend it to. As I said, random, seriously random. No easy fixes? I've tried several of the suggsetions....and nothing. I don't have Airparrot or any AppleTV extras, nothing unusual on my Mabook pro.

Any more suggestions.... I would be grateful.

Thanx :]

Have you taken the notebook into an Apple store? I know the timing stated above coincided with the Lion install, but it could be coincidence and it could be a hardware fault...

I haven't.....I will do so, then at least we can eliminate (or make a discovery about) that possibility. I did really assume it was the software, but you are right, I should check out the hardware. Thanks for pointing out the obvious :) Wish me luck!

I installed AirParrot a few days ago and started to get the same issue. It's quite obviously a bug with any screen sharing apps. Got rid of AirParrot and it's .kexts files and all is good now. Now I have to get my $10 back from AirParrot. 😉

Thank you so much for this: saved me a huge headache.

One thing I noticed on first try was that I didn't let the mac go all the way to sleep; some time in-between. Once I did that worked fine!

thanks again.

I have seen all of these symptoms as well as synergys giving a locked by mouse button error until I sleep / awake the system.. also extended screen lock seemed to fix the problem as well. I Fixed with the uninstall of AirDisplay restart and all seems back to normal.

Late 2008 MBP 15"

Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 (11D50)

Please see our blog post about this bug:

Air Display on Lion with NVIDIA 9400/9600

It describes the problem and explains a workaround. In Lion 10.7, the bug affected a broad list of Macs, including models of MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, and Mac mini. As of 10.7.3, they've fixed it for all but a handful of 15" & 17" 2008-2009 MacBook Pro models. We are hopeful that Apple will continue to make progress in fixing this bug.

The drag and drop problem was solved for me by using the Air Parrott Removal Tool from http://airparrot.com/faq.php

Thanks

Just found a solution. Go to Universal Access in Preferences and select Trackpad options. Enable drag & drop again.

That's all.

🙂