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phew44

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Original poster
Jul 4, 2008
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Hi everyone,

I have a problem. After a while, I sometimes can't use Drag & Drop anymore. It works when I reboot, but then it often stops working again after a while. This is very annoying.

- I can't start dragging files in finder (icons just won't start moving)
- I can still copy, paste and delete those same files via keyboard
- I can drag windows around
- I can't END drag operations in Interface Builder (can start the drag, can move icon around, but the "add here" thing doesn't appear)
- When I start to drag something from Safaris bookmark bar, it immediately disappears as if I deleted it or something. Normally, I can just drag it around the screen.
- When I started a drag operation from a dock-stack, the dock crashed (coincidence?)

What could be wrong? I heard this was a common problem on 10.2, but I'm on Leopard. Oh, I even reinstalled the whole system and it still keeps happening after a while! But reboot fixes it, so I guess no hardware fault? It didn't happen for almost a year and then a few weeks ago suddenly started happening from time to time. Maybe because of some update?
 
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