Can't drag and drop...

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sclg
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Can't drag and drop...

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For some reason, XYplorer lost all my configuration settings the other day. Annoying because I've been using it for many years and I can't remember how I'd set it all up!

Anyway, cutting a long story short, I've got most of it back the way I want it but for some reason, I can't drag and drop a file from ANYWHERE into a folder in XYplorer. What have i missed?? "Drop" just doesn't work.
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Steve

Turion
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Re: Can't drag and drop...

Post by Turion »

Hey, you probably have Manual Sorting turned on.
Uncheck option in Tools > Customize List > Manual Sorting .

sclg
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Re: Can't drag and drop...

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Nope - Manual sorting not ticked...
Steve

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sclg wrote:For some reason, XYplorer lost all my configuration settings the other day. Annoying because I've been using it for many years and I can't remember how I'd set it all up!
Your last good data is always available in the <xydata>\AutoBackup folder.

sclg
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Re: Can't drag and drop...

Post by sclg »

Good to know for the future but they've all been overwritten by now :cry:

Still can't drag and drop though.....

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Post by admin »

A Windows reboot usually fixes this.

sclg
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Post by sclg »

So it does!

(This PC doesn't get rebooted often!)
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Post by ksarnelli »

Is there any way to fix this besides a reboot? Have it happening at the moment on a server that is not so easy to reboot :wink:

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If you cannot drag FROM anywhere then it could be because you run XY as Admin. This is a UAC thing. Unelevate XY to fix it.

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admin wrote:If you cannot drag FROM anywhere then it could be because you run XY as Admin. This is a UAC thing. Unelevate XY to fix it.
Wasn't running as admin, and had exited and relaunched several times and it still wasn't working. Basically whenever I tried to drag anything it would just wouldn't (the cursor would change for like a millisecond and then change back).

Interestingly enough I tried again this morning and it seems to have fixed itself. I guess it just needed a nap! :P

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