Drag and drop in finder stops working

Yes, I use Dejal Time Out 2 and was using iTerm3 (which is iTerm2 beta). Since I replaced iTerm2 beta with stable version the bug doesn’t occur anymore, so I think that beta was the problem.

Excellent.

@frimannkjerulf, please try using the stable version of iTerm2, and see if that helps you too.

I don't use TimeOut but use the beta of iTerm2 and see this issue on and off. So I don't believe the issue is with TimeOut at all but rather, with iTerm 2 beta. Just had not been able to narrow down the cause of the issue till now. Now that I know it might be iTerm2 beta, guess I'll keep an eye out to see if I can narrow this down further ...

Do you by any chance do a lot of copying and pasting to Apple's Notes? I noticed that I had this issue last week when I tried to paste some info in to a note. The info just would not paste and soon after, when I tried to drag and drop, it didn't work either. So that's another possibility since I wasn't using iTerm at that point at all and this was soon after a reboot.

I am basically clutching at straws at this point and not using things like iTerm or Notes unless I really need to 😀

Nope. Never use Apple Notes. This must have been after your pboard got locked.

Using stable version of iTerm2 didn’t help, the bug occured again. Does everybody use Time Out here?

Nope, I don't use Time Out at all and I still see that issue. I thought it might be Notes, but the reply above you mentions that they never use Notes. So that's out too 🙂

I got the issue again today and the first Console error I see for CFPasteboardRef is from Little Snitch. Is that perhaps the common factor? I don't know ...

When you see CFPasteboardRef, that's just the symptom, IMO.

I don't use nor have Little Snitch installed.

After I stopped launching (more or less) Timeout, I've not had this issue occur.

I use TimeOut but not iTerm. Have this problem at least once a week.

I've been using iTerm for years and had no troubles with clipboard, but when I installed TimeOut the bug with clipboard started to annoy me. I think this apps conflicts somehow.

I'm the author of Time Out. I've been working with an Apple engineer to figure out this issue, which is a high priority for Apple and Dejal.

As far as we can tell, the issue isn't a bug in Time Out, but a general OS bug that Time Out happens to trigger more reliably than other apps, probably because it both runs for a long time and has transient break helpers. The issue only seems to affect newly launched apps, which is why the break helper can display the error but the main app doesn't.

Anyway, I have implemented a possible workaround in Time Out version 2.1. So please update to that, and see if it helps. Apple has also added more diagnostics in Sierra, so using that may help too. I haven't had any reports of the issue when using Time Out 2.1 on Sierra, so it may be fixed there. If anyone does experience the issue using both of those, please let us know.

This has happened to me for years. Force quitting the Finder works, but it's such a pain.