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Can't Drag and Drop Anything

I've installed OS X Lion and now when I click on an icon on my desktop and drag it, it follows along nicely, only letting go of the mouse button doesn't drop it. In fact, nothing does. Instead the icon hangs onto the cursor as if I have kept holding down the mouse button. If I want to drag something to the trash, when I hover over the Trash icon and let go, it acts like I'm still holding down the mouse button and instead opens up the Trash folder. It's not limited to trash, it's just where I first noticed it. I can't move files between folders.


This pretty much happens across the board, too. Drag an icon off of the dock to remove it, it just hangs onto the mouse pointer and never goes away. Drag an icon from the icon bar at the top (command-click) and you can pick up the icon and move it, but never drop it. Is there a solution to this?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 20, 2011 6:11 PM

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Jul 21, 2011 7:25 AM in response to techdag

I have the exact same 2 problems as Techdag.

Very, very annoying.


Macbook Pro 17" 5,2


Perian

Growl

Flash Player

Flip4Mac

Secrets

Startup Sound

Modified Boot Screen via BootXChanger

iTunes 10.5

Adobe Reader, Photoshop, Lightroom

other Software

everything latest instance


Thanks for the sleep-wake workaround, that helps a lot.

The white screen with the 9600M ***** totally, I don´t like to use the discrete GPU since the MB gets very hot.

Jul 21, 2011 11:30 AM in response to belosh

.. and one more who has exactly the same issues. Here my spec:


MBP 15inch late 2008 (running on 8GB very stable on good old SL). Spent a whole day to update all 3rd party apps and anything which is related to finder, mouse, etc (e.g. totalfinder, bettertouch,..) Nothing help.


Will wait for Apples 10.7.1 -- guess its alraedy around the corner

Can't Drag and Drop Anything

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