Can't drag, drop, or move icons from dock

I'm seeing this problem too, with Dock content and also in some apps: in Axure RP, I can no longer drag elements from any Widget area to the canvas.

I was having this issue as well. I posted it on Ask Different and a user gave me an interesting solution that fixed it (http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/160187/finder-and-dock-issues-in-osx-10 -10-1).

I use the Push Bullet plugin for Chrome and I had a feature enabled called Universal Copy/Paste. While it was enabled I was unable to do the things described in this thread as well as I was unable to copy and paste or move more than about 83 items in finder at a time.

After disabling the Universal Copy/Paste feature, then restarting, everything has worked perfectly fine. Re-enabling the feature caused the issues to come back. So I am confident that was the cause in my case.

My guess is that there is a bug in UIKit and can only assume that other applications that tie into copy and paste features could be causing the same issue.

It is worth noting that the feature seems to be hidden in the latest version (not sure if this is a bug or on purpose). The checkbox is still there, however it's display is set to none. If you inspect the content of the General tab (in Options) you can force it to show again by following this: http://www.reddit.com/r/PushBullet/comments/2yxly6/has_universal_copy_and_paste_ been_removed_from/cpf8ffs

I have been having this problem too. I have tried the killall dock fix and other system fixes to no avail.

I HAVE FOUND THE EASY FIX THAT SEEMS TO BE WORKING FOR ME:

IF YOU SINGLE CLICK GRAB THE ICON AND MOVE IS AS SOON AS YOU CLICK ON IT YOU CAN MOVE THE ICON. IF YOU WAIT ANY AMOUNT OF TIME BEFORE YOU TRY TO MOVE THE ICON IT WILL NOT MOVE.

Please try this and let me know if it works for others.

- Running Macbook Pro OSX Yosemite 10.10.2 -

is there any fix yet? i'm having the same issue

The new update this month fixed it for me. I no longer have the problem now.

Thank you , that worked for me!

@jordanpatters Thanks for the tip. Probably never would've thought about Pushbullet copy/paste causing this particular problem. That did the trick for me. I disabled Universal Copy/Paste in both the Pushbullet Mac app and the Chrome browser app, then restarted Mac. I am once again able to Move icons around in my dock.

Ridiculously simple - thank you! Anyone else searching this - see Hagame's tip... just click on icon and move immediately - don't click and hold as it won't move.

Thank you so much! It worked for me.

Ta da! That worked! Thank you.

doesn't work for me. I've only had my mac a month so no idea whats caused this. I'm moving it so fast it looks like I'm flicking it off the screen and it still just bounces back to the dock.

I completely agree with Jordan! This was exactly the issue I was having.

Great help, very many thanks, worked first time

Just bought the 12" macbook and had same problem: I went to dock preferences, chose to auto hide the dock and then it worked; I unchecked that option and went back to dock showing and it still worked; not sure what I jarred, but now I can move icons like i always used to.

Thank You!!