Files stick to cursor when dragging and won't let go!

Thank you biologyoracle. Indeed, I have Air Display by Avatron installed. Since I have it installed I sometimes have this issue. Immediately uninstalled and hopefully it is now solved.

I also have the same problem and tried to live with it rather than solving it for weeks, but I am fed up with force quitting and reloading applications. Could a second level support look at this problem, please? The thread shows that there is no solution yet. I don't have Air Display installed as the first level support has suggested for the other case. So it seems to be a bit more of a general problem that cannot be put down to other manufacturers. I cannot finish my calendar in iphoto, because each time I am trying to drag a photo into the template I cannot let it go. The only solution to get out of this situation is to force quit the programm, but then the photo is still not moved. Let me know if you have an upgrade or another solution. Thank you in advance.

Do any of these issues actually get resolved? This is the most annoying thing possible...

I'm having the exact same problem on Mountain Lion, reboot fixes it but this is a massive PITA and not a great solution, will try the sleep fix as my cursor is sticking as I write this. 😟

I have exactly the same problem but does clear if Mac is put to sleep. Not ideal though and this happened as soon as I upgraded to Mountain Lion.

I am having the same problems but I did this and it seems to help.

Activity Monitor is showing Process name: warmd / User: nobody

I closed it and now I can drag and drop again.

You are right, I have it too!

Do you think it could be some sort of virus? (the "nobody" user thingy is quite suspicious)

I started having problems the day I installed and unistalled AirParrot.

The way I´m so far using to get rid of the problem, which is equivalent to restart or go on sleep mode, is to click on my sesion name and chose "Session start window" (translated from spanish so actual words could differ), and then log in again (this is faster than anything and doesn´t actually close your session).

I´ll try Sylus solution and hope someone finds a real fix.

I too had this problem and also a process called "warmd" with / User: nobody.

This all started when I installed an application called Airparrot, I have removed the application and also its plist file from /Library/Preferences and all is back to normal

+1 biologyoracle.

Forgot I had AirDisplay installed, and the lock behavior just started out of nowhere. Was driving me nuts. Uninstalling AirDisplay fixed the issue. Weird. Thank you!

I have the same problem with the icon or file sticking to the mouse pointer when I click on it, it renders my system inoperative. I have search the web for a fix but found none. I beleive the problem started after I tried Airdisplay, I Uninstalled it but the problem stayed. When I upgraded to Mountain Lion (10.8) problem was still there.

I found one solution that seem to work on my MacBook Pro, I had setup a Guest user account and then I log on to my account and the sticking pointer problem is goes away. As long as I have two users active I do not have the problem.

I too was hoping Apple had a solution by now, but for now this works for me.