Dragging items in 10.2 doesn't work

[G4scott]

I seem to have a problem... I upgraded my iBook to 10.2, and now I can't drag items. Not in the finder, not in omniweb, not in any application whatsoever... One of the best features of computers, which debuted on a Mac, isn't working on my Mac...

Help please

 

[G4scott]

Just a note: I'm thinking that tinker tool might be messing with things... I didn't realize that I had it installed, until just a moment ago. Unfortunately, it's in the preferences panes, and it won't open...

 

[menoinjun]

Yeah, tinker tool doesn't work for me either. I don't know why, but I do know that a lot of the available options in tinker tool are already built into Jaguar.

_pete

 

[cb911]

i'm not sure what you mean by 'draging items doesn't work' but i have a similar problem. whenever i try to move some files from one folder to another it always gets copied. i don't know if this is just a prefrence or something... anyone know?

 

[AmbitiousLemon]

uninstaller tinker tool for 10.1 and install tinkertool for 10.2

 

[peterjhill]

I just posted this to another thread, where you mentioned the problem. In case you don't see it there...

I had the same problem. Where you running any Developer Releases? Particularly 6c105 (but others might have same problem also). To see if you are being effected by the same bug I had do this:

Open the Console (applications -> utilities -> console)

Try to drag anywhere, the finder, addressbook, itunes

If you get an error pop up in the console window, then you have the same problem I had. I was not running that program that you mentioned. I ended up doing a clean install (instead of an archive and move users and network settings) of the final release, and that solved my problems.

I am not sure if there is an easier fix to your problem. I would think about a clean install if I where you.

 

[G4scott]

I'm running the retail version of Jaguar, and have not installed any developer releases.

The weird thing is, that I installed the security update, and restarted, and dragging works fine now, but I can't seem to be able to copy/paste. I can't copy something from omniweb and put it in Text Edit...

This is getting really annoying...

 

[jelloshotsrule]

i couldn't drag anything either at some point... but when i restarted it worked again and i haven't seen any such problems since....

hmm.

let us know if you figure it out... would be good to keep an eye out for whatever bugs there might be.

 

[peterjhill]

Did you look at the console, as I suggested? Almost all stderror info is sent to the console, which makes it great for debugging.