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My mouse is stuck in "drag" mode. This generally happens in Photoshop, but happens dragging files and such as well.

Clicking rapidly here and there generally solves the problem. Sometimes though, it won't go away until a restart. Unplugging devices, etc., doesn't do anything.

For example, right now, my mouse moves but can not click anything so I am using the keyboard to navigate this site.

Is there a way to "reset" however the OS stores mouse states?

Can I manually fire off a MouseUp event?

It's strange that even when human input devices are unplugged, the files are still in drag state.

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For the record, this appears to have been a problem with my graphics card and or OSX starting to crash. The problem got progressively worse until my computer would consistently crash. I'm still curious about manually sending a mouse up event though... – Yuji Tomita Dec 28 '11 at 5:02
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I got exactly the same issue, but the internet resolves nothing. It seems that when I restart my MacbookPro, it "could" go away. When I close all my apps, I get more successful results. When Lion loads the apps that were open when I restarted, I get a "sticky" drop scenario more consistently. Not hardware related, think it could be a Lion glitch.

[UPDATE] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3191768?start=0&tstart=0

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I appreciate the "answer" but this would be more appropriate as a comment. If there's a solution in here somewhere, you can post that! – Yuji Tomita Apr 9 at 19:36
For the record, on my part I get the glitch occasionally now, but not consistently as before. I know it has nothing to do with the hardware itself, as I plugged in 3 other Wacom Intuos 4 tablets with the same issue immediately manifesting. – Yuji Tomita Apr 9 at 19:38
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