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I have a MacBook Pro 15" i7, Snow Leopard 10.6.8.

Files won't "drop" after dragging them.

I've restarted my computer several times, and repaired disk permissions as well as verified the disk – and the results told me my MacBook Pro was fine.

What should I do? What's causing this?

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What happens instead? Does it snap back? Sometimes it may stick and you have to click to drop. Does that work? – digitxp Aug 25 '11 at 20:01
Where are you actually trying to drag/drop files from/to? – slhck Aug 25 '11 at 20:25
Double click to drop if you have Drag Lock on. – Vervious Aug 26 '11 at 1:07
thanks guys. what happened was, my computer worked fine before, i don't have drag lock on, so it should automatically drop to another folder like if i dragged from my desktop to photos. it didn't drop. it was stuck moving around with the cursor. when i press esc, it wouldn't snap back to the desktop. – Laurice Aug 26 '11 at 6:48
So you use the trackpad only? How do you perform the drag then? Do you have "dragging" enabled (i.e. double-click, then drag) or do you click the pad and drag? Or is your problem solved? – slhck Aug 26 '11 at 7:15
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Open System Preferences » Trackpad and make sure you don't have Drag Lock set there.

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Is there even a difference between Drag Lock activated and the default setting? Couldn't spot any. – slhck Aug 25 '11 at 21:20
@slhck Just watch the video. You can remove your fingers while dragging. It's gone on Lion, so I cannot experiment myself /// Totally off topic: May I send you an SU blog post draft by email for feedback? – Daniel Beck Aug 25 '11 at 21:28
Ah, so there's no automatic deactivation anymore. /// Why yes, I'll read through it some time tomorrow or over the weekend! – slhck Aug 25 '11 at 21:32
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@Daniel Beck the drag lock setting is actually still there in lion, albeit in the Universal Access section buried underneath 2 layers of settings. – Vervious Aug 26 '11 at 1:08
I don't have drag lock selected. It's probably something with my trackpad? thanks for the help though. – Laurice Aug 26 '11 at 6:49
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That happens to me in Lion after I boot my computer.

My solution: put it to sleep and wake it and everything will be ok

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I have the same problem. It seems to be a system problem instead of a trackpad problem. I keep having problems with dropping in general. I work with a Wacom Bamboo, but the problem has been occuring with the trackpad, mouse, wacom tablet and remote desktop software such as Logmein and Mobile Mouse.

The problem appears only some times, but when it does it happens with every single drop. Also it happens to me with files that I drag from finder, text that I drag from any application and files that I drag from google chrome (files that I downloaded) to finder windows.

I have not experienced any such thing in Snow Leopard and experienced it numerous times in Lion, so I assume this is a Lion problem.

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