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In Mountain Lion, the old-school drang-and-drop trackpad gesture no longer works. That would be double-tab-hold-drag.
There is now an option for a three-finger drag, which is just mind blowingly unnatural.
Is there a preference or special command that can bring back good old trackpad drag and drop?
Thank yuou.
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion
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system preferences>accessibility>mouse and trackpad>trackpad options>enable dragging(without drag lock). *catches breath*
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Thank you for this answer. I am new to macbook from a Windows Vista HP system and i liked the three finger drag and select feature but I have had some time when when I needed to select or where I need to go and drop the files was further than the length or width of the touchpad so it got be a real pain to use for those purposes and I had to hook my dell scroll mouse up to use it for drag and drop or multi-selection. I knew there should be a simple answer for what I wanted to do without using the mouse and you have answered that question. It will make things a lot easier for me now.
Thank you.
Fantastic! Thank you for the Index finger flick tip. Now 3-finger gesture is AWESOME to use!!
A huge thank you, Smoke Monster!
Old school drag-and-drop with trackpad no longer possible?
