Snow Leopard Drag-and-Drop Broken? (85 object limit)

Hi all,

Normally consider myself quite able to troubleshoot my own problems, but I can't for the life of me figure out what to do here, and can't seem to find many others who have the same problem.

The drag-and-drop function in Snow Leopard appears to be either broken or deliberately crippled. My work sees me having to move a lot of files from folder to folder, and I've discovered that, as of fairly recently, I can no longer drag-and-drop more than 85 objects from one folder to another. Up to 85, everything works just fine -- but if I select 86, upon dragging I get an "X-ed out" icon, like the "no smoking" or "no parking" circle with a line through it.

I'm not quite sure what to do about this, but would be very curious and appreciative if anyone else has the same issue, or has figured out how to solve it! This, combined with the lack of a "cut" feature in OS X has begun to really impede my workflow.

Thanks so much!

 

Hi MacKeeper,

Thanks for the suggestion. However, I'm somewhat dismayed that a feature that should, as they say, "just work" requires this work around. Clearly, it's either a bug or something is broken in my particular installation.

The other thing that you've helped me inadvertently discover is that the copy and paste function also appears to be broken. I copied a large directory (about 500 image files) to another directory, only to find that it only copied about a third of the files. Could there be something wrong in a preference setting or a *.plist, or something else altogether?

Would very much appreciate anyone's help and input!

 

Scorched Earth Solution

Hi all,

Thanks much for your very helpful answers. The other accounts on my computer did not have the same problem, so I figured it must have been something with my preference files having gotten corrupt. I deleted all of the com.apple.* files in my user's ~/Library/Preferences folder, and while it meant resetting a lot of preferences, it did fix the problem.

Thanks so much!