MacBookPlease try to explain what's happening....
Where are you? (What Apple hardware are you using?)
What are you trying to drag/drop?
What are you trying to copy paste?
What OS?
Why cant you drag and drop?
And please post the thread in a more descriptive place such as Mac OS X or iPhone.
If you're in iPhone.... You can neither drag/drop (only icons on your home screen for rearranging.... press the home button for 3 seconds) nor cut/copy/paste
If you're in Mac OS X, try command+c to copy, command+v to paste and command+x to cut!
OK... this is weird!
First lets see... Have you tried restarting your macbook? This solves most of the problems!
If this doesnt work, Open Disk Utility and repair permissions and verify disk!
Meanwhile I'll google this and find out more!
I have tried to drag and drop files into different folders, pictures onto my desktop, and icons. EVERYTHING basically. And I have tried copy and pasting text. I have also tried copy and pasting files into other folders also.this sounds like a very rare issue with a very generalised explanation. please explain exactly what you have tried to "drag & drop" and "copy & paste".
to copy a file either select it in the Finder and press "command+C", select "Copy" from the Edit menu and then paste the file. or you drag and drop while holding the "option" button which both copies and pastes the file. there is no "Cut" in Mac OS X except for when you cut text, its then "command+X".
drag & drop is pretty self explanatory. just drag a file from folder to folder. you even can hold a file over a folder to use spring loaded folders. you can also use spring loaded folders for folders in Finder's sidebar or Stacks in the Dock.
Yes I repaired the disk. If I backup then will I lose everything?
/bump
This is an ongoing issue, without a tangible fix. I personally can't copy/paste or anything, as everyone else said. However, I disabled spotlight about a week ago, which is when time machine went insane and deleted all my backups on my external hard drive. I'm unable to search as well.
So, essentially, my ibook cannot search, back up, copy/paste, or any of that good stuff. I've run disk utility and permissions, verified everything, everything "appears to be ok", but it most certainly is not.
Also, about a week ago, my mac started turning off randomly and would die out for a while, and I'd take out the power supply and battery and then plug it back in again, and it reset me to 1969, in date/time
I'm personally going to erase my disk completely and do an install.
Being a musician, however, this is a killer, as I'm deleting much of my own music, as well as entire catalogues of others of whom I listen to
But working with a faulty computer is much more difficult.
As another added bonus, my midi devices stopped working! I can't even use garageband or logic at all as a result.
Apple, find a fix.
Wow dude that is really messed up. I don't even know how to use Time Machine personally so I don't have to worry about any of that but I hope you can find a fix. All I had to do was reinstall mac osx 10.4.5 or w.e it was. Best of luck to you.
I was was seeing a similar issue on a MacBook Air running 10.5.5. I could not drag and drop icons in the Finder, and also could not copy and paste from any applications. The pbcopy command was not copying anything to the clipboard, so the pbpaste would not return anything. Fixing perms and rebooting was not helping at all.
I ended up fixing this by noticing that the /private/tmp directory did not exist. I created it, assigned the correct permissions, rebooted the computer, and my drag and drop and clipboard functionality came back. I used the following commands to create and assign permissions to the tmp directory.
sudo mkdir /private/tmp
sudo chmod 1777 /private/tmp
I am not sure if this is exactly the same problem that others are having. I would first check to see if the /private/tmp directory exists and that the permissions are drwxrwxrwt. I am also not sure the implications or other negative side effects of this process. I would only try this as a last resort. It may save a reinstall of the OS.
Where do I put/make this replacement folder?
The commands given show where. It's a location that is normally hidden though from viewing via Finder.
I am still having trouble is there anyway I could get your Ichat screen name and possibly get more assistance? Your help would be much appreciated because I really have to resolve this issue before school start!