Q: Drag and drop stops working in maverick

I have a macbook pro late 2013

Hi everyone, I just restarted finder with CMD + ALT + ESC and it fixed my problem.

Give it a try to see if it works

Exactly the same. Drag and drop docent work in all OS. Photoshop, Sketch, Safari, Chrome, Mail

Hi everyone,

Same problem but I made it work by doing the following steps:

1. Hold your file, by keeping the trackpad (or mouse) pressed;

2. While file is still held, hover over the destination folder you want. A little "+" (plus sign) appears below the file/files you are holding;

3. If you press "command" key before dropping, the little plus sign will disappear. That's the indication you want that you are moving the files, instead of copying.

For some reason, it seems that Finder has copy as default.....

Best.

Backgorund:

Drag-drop suddenly stops working.

Temporary solutions:

4-5 reboots

Removing com.apple.finder.plist file

Have not tried:

Reinstall Yosemite

What I found out:

I found out that it's not only about drag/drop - it's about the clipboard. As far as copy/paste went, "nothing" work anymore. Not drag and drop, not cmd+c, not Edit > Copy. I started experience the issue just yesterday I think - it came out of the blue.

However, a week ago I created an Automator scripts that review folder X for extension Y and then moves the file of said extension into a separate folder. Essentially, it's a cut and paste job that Automator does all the time.

Soluton:

Removed the Automator workflow i created from /users/username/library/workflows. Rebooted computer. Drag/drop and copy/paste has been working for over an hour.

Although others have said it didn't work, when I relaunched by hitting CMD+OPTION+ESC I was able to drag and drop.

Hi, i had the same problem but i just relaunched finder and its all good now.

Just hold down the option key, right click on the finder icon and select relaunch.

I have the same issue. Cleaning with Onyx seems to solve the problem for now.

It was not related to Google Drive or Chrome as it's not on my computer at all.

It happened usually after a hard and long use of Max/Msp (software of visual programming).

For what it's worth, the problem went away after I upgraded to Yosemite.

Just quit mail and delete: /Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist

This happens in Yosemite as well. Drives me crazy and they may never admit that it happens until they fix it. For me this has nothing to do with the mail app. It's just in the finder windows.

PS It appears to be a general Finder instability. Sometimes when this happens the Finder will lock altogether, or other functions will begin to behave oddly, for example simply highlighting a file will not work. Relaunching the Finder helps with the other observed problems, but does not restore the ability to drag and drop.

Thanks dovbm, killing pboard worked for me.

In my case I was able to drag & drop in Finder, but not in iTunes & Serato DJ.

Hi,

This just worked for me, as I had the same drag and drop problem after upgrading to El Capitan. It seems to be an acessibility setting.

http://www.idownloadblog.com/2015/06/25/three-finger-drag-gesture-os-x-el-capita n/

Hope it can help you too.

I had the same problem with my 2015 macbook pro running El Capitain (10.11).

Restarting Finder did not work, reboot does work, but only temporarily.

Disabling the Force press option from the Macbook's trackpad seemed to work.