Enable Drag And Drop Not Working

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Enable Drag And Drop Not Working

Hello everyone, so I am trying to Enable Drag and Drop for images, files, etc. I keep seeing videos, pictures on more on how to do it, and almost always it says: 1- Go to System Preferences. 2- Go to accessibility. 3- Click on Mouse and trackpad. 4- From there, enable drag and drop.

I did everything correctly, but when I click on Mouse and Trackpad, All I see is Mouse Options, I do not see Trackpad Options, which is what I need to enable drag and drop.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), System preferences Mac.

Posted on Mar 10, 2018 2:52 AM

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Answer 1

Eau Rouge

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Mar 10, 2018 9:32 AM in response to Alex05Diego06

Ok so are you trying to drag and drop to the same destination, for example if you are just rearranging the Desktop then check your Show View Options under View in the Finder and check what your Arrange By or Sort By options are set to if they are set to anything but None then they will jump to the order you have set.

Otherwise if you have a file on your Desktop and you want to put it in a folder, can you do that.

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Answer 2

Eau Rouge

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Mar 10, 2018 5:12 AM in response to Alex05Diego06

drag and drop is a default in Mac OS you should not need to enable anything in Accesabilty

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Answer 3

Mar 10, 2018 5:55 AM in response to Eau Rouge

Alright sure, the problem is that when I drag and drop and image or a file, it just goes back without being dropped where I want it to be. What should I do? Sorry I am really bad at computers.

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Answer 4

Eric Root

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Mar 10, 2018 10:16 AM in response to Alex05Diego06

If you are trying to add it to a folder, try pausing over the folder before dropping.

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