I used to be able to drag and drop document into files on my MacBook Pro desktop and after the update it now won't work? I have tried changing the settings and nothing seems to work...
Yes, it is. I was a Strike WSO quite a while ago. Her patches are strange to me, though. Wish her “good hunting” for me.
Yes, it is. I was a Strike WSO quite a while ago. Her patches are strange to me, though. Wish her “good hunting” for me.
Please describe what happens when you drag an item onto the Desktop. It should work the way it always has. What settings did you change?
Try restarting your Mac in the usual manner.
I have been having this problem. What just worked for me, and I hope continues to work, is more lightly pressing track pad on the file I want to drag. If you click down all the way on the track pad, the file won't "take" to be dragged/moved.
I found this in Settings:
Accessibility > Trackpad options > Use trackpad for dragging
Before that I was able only to drag folders or files if they were shown as icons in Finder. So that works too.
M3 Pro, MacOS 14.3.1. I had a similar problem and the fix might apply here. Trying to drag & drop an attachment into email (Thunderbird), it kept opening a preview & I couldn't drag it into the email program. I turned off "Force Click and haptic feedback" in the trackpad settings and it now works like MacOS did for decades. HTH.
vesque (see above) had the solution that worked for me. In OS Sonoma on my MacBook, a lighter pressure on the trackpad till a subtle click is felt will permit drag and drop. Firm pressure opens a preview of the file. Extremely annoying to those of us who are accustomed to the old click and drag but are uninformed about this feature.
seekir wrote:
vesque (see above) had the solution that worked for me. In OS Sonoma on my MacBook, a lighter pressure on the trackpad till a subtle click is felt will permit drag and drop. Firm pressure opens a preview of the file. Extremely annoying to those of us who are accustomed to the old click and drag but are uninformed about this feature.
Turn off the Force Click gesture, or don’t press that hard.
i fixed it by pressing down with 2 fingers onto my desktop then selecting the "show view options." at the top it says "stack by:" there's a drop down menu and i selected the "none" option.
hope this works!
I can drag and drop, using 3 fingers on the trackpad. I took me 2 days to find out. Hope it works for you:
BR,
Pero JIMENEZ
Hi All,
Settings > Accessibility > Pointer control > Turn on Spring loading
Should be resolved.
Enjoy ;)
what i did was disabling the TURN ON SPRING LOADING and it worked
Relaunching Finder (🍎 > Force Quit > Finder > Relaunch) was the solution that worked for me.
I found the answer! I couldn't handle that lightly pressing thing.
Go to Settings > Trackpad > Disable "Force click and haptic feedback".
joy … simple drag and drop functionality is back!
CORRECTION: This does work! I was in the Pointer & Trackpad settings under Accessibility which is why I didn't see it at first, but there are additional trackpad settings under Trackpad in the left nav of settings. That's where you can find the "Force Click and haptic feedback" setting. Turning that off worked for me, as the original poster said.
There are TWO different settings that need to be adjusted for this:
I had to do BOTH of these things for the drag-and-drop functionality to return to normal, where a regular/hard press selects the item and you continue holding down to drag it to where you want.
(If you want to not have to hold it down while you drag, check out the other options under the "Dragging Style" options in Accessibility settings above.)
Why can't I drag and drop documents into folder on desktop post macOS sonoma?
