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Fix broken drag and drop in 10.2.6: beware...
Authored by: tinker on Jul 19, '03 07:12:51PM

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.

(I can sense the reader thinking, Good God, man, back the thing up -- you're going down! I'm getting there....)

Tried one more 10.2.6 comprehensive install. Nothing. Finally, out of curiosity, I copied /Library/Caches/ from my most recent backup (I knew there was a reason I backed up /Library), rebooted, and, thank God, I've at least got icons back, documents recognize their applications, etc. -- except for the ones I installed very recently, which are still generic.

NOW I'm backing up, and writing this on a different machine. I have no idea what's causing the drag problem, still (any suggestions welcome!!), and I'm a bit worried that I'm not getting startup info, but I'd say that trashing the entire Cache directory was definitely a step in the wrong direction. Caveat lector....



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