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Fix broken drag and drop in 10.2.6
This is a known problem. The solution is simply to delete the icon cache found in /Library/Caches/ whose name is "com.apple.dock.iconcache.#USERNAME#"
I wish I remembered where I clipped this from so I could give proper credit... but I didn't ref it properly in my notes...sorry OS X: coreservicesd crashing, icons not moving
Fix broken drag and drop in 10.2.6
I don't know about this exact text, but it appears to resemble a discussion on Macintouch several months back. I too ran into this problem (with 10.2.3), and deleting the iconcache file (as well as several others recommended there) only temporarily "solved" the problem -- in the end, I too had to reinstall from the combo updater. After that, the problem has not (yet) returned. (Knock on particle board....) As always, YMMV.
Fix broken drag and drop in 10.2.6: beware...
I ran into this problem (drag and drop not working) yesterday. I tried reinstalling the 10.2.6 comprehensive upgrade -- no dice. I tried deleting com.apple.dock.iconcache.myname, still no dice. I tried trashing the whole Caches directory; when I rebooted, all of the icons were generic, either dog-eared paper or folders -- documents couldn't identify their applications -- and I still couldn't drag and drop anything. Tried booting in single-user mode and fsck -y -ing a few times, then rebooting. Nada. It was also starting to engage in some very strange behavior: not showing the moving bar and giving details about what it was doing on startup, for example. Then it asked me for my username and password and wouldn't let me in. At that point I figured I was done for. Fortunately, a reboot fixed that... this time.
DON'T DO THAT!!!
I am not saying that deleting those cache files will never work, but it can also make things worse. Here comes another example to add to the various comments of this thread... |
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