Drag & Drop From Adobe PDF

[Jon_AK]

Good morning. Having a bit of a problem with XYploere & Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. When viewing a muilti-page PDF, the left side bar can be expanded revealing the individual pages of the PDF file. Typically, I select the pages I need to work with then drag them into an empty folder to create a new file. Unfortunately, this functionality has stopped working with the current version of XYplorer, version 23.30.0100. When dragging the selected files from Adobe, they are displayed as the typical Windows multi-page icon but dropping them into the selected folder I have open in XYplorer does not result in the files being copied. I have to open Windows file explorer, navigate to the folder where they are to go and then perfrom the drag & drop with Windows explorer. Help??

[admin]

... has stopped working with the current version of XYplorer

When did it work the last time?

[Jon_AK]

When did it work the last time?

I do this particular task quite often but there are periods of time when it doesn't happen... weekends, light work load, etc., so I believe but am not 100% sure, all was working up until xyplorer updated to this version 23.30.0200. I have xyplore set to auto update as well as the Adobe product (not the freebee acrobat reader). I have spent time reviewing / changing settings in both programs (xyplorer & adobe acrobat) but cannot seem to get this particular function to work again.

[Horst]

I don't use Adobe at all but there is some extended security setting in it
which must be disabled for the usage from many external tools.
May be it helpa in the XY case.

[Jon_AK]

Am not a fan of Adobe but I do have all the security settings disabled but still no joy with dragging out files from it.

[Jon_AK]

I just stumbled upon the cure for this problem. I have 3 drives in my machine, which I do not use for this purpose. I was able to drag ^ drop to both of the other drives. The 3rd drive for some reason did not have the same access privelidges set set by the OS (go figure for a local drive). Change them to match and all is well. Sorry if this had anyone jumping through hoops.

[admin]

OK, thanks for the info!

[7iben]

I have the same problem. However, I have full access to all drives and still cannot store a page from Acrobat in xyplorer on any drive.
This only works with Windows explorer on each drive.
Can someone help me?

[RalphM]

Sorry, I'm a bit confused by your description of the problem.

...store a page from Acrobat in xyplorer on any drive...

How does XY get involved in your attempt to store a page from Acrobat on any of your drives?

[7iben]

I have exactly the same problem. like the following user.
I cannot extract a page from a multi-PDF from acrobat by dragging and dropping it into xyplorer on a hard drive.

Post by Jon_AK » 13 Jul 2022 19:21
Good morning. Having a bit of a problem with XYploere & Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. When viewing a muilti-page PDF, the left side bar can be expanded revealing the individual pages of the PDF file. Typically, I select the pages I need to work with then drag them into an empty folder to create a new file. Unfortunately, this functionality has stopped working with the current version of XYplorer, version 23.30.0100. When dragging the selected files from Adobe, they are displayed as the typical Windows multi-page icon but dropping them into the selected folder I have open in XYplorer does not result in the files being copied. I have to open Windows file explorer, navigate to the folder where they are to go and then perfrom the drag & drop with Windows explorer. Help??
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[Jon_AK]

I have exactly the same problem. like the following user.
I cannot extract a page from a multi-PDF from acrobat by dragging and dropping it into xyplorer on a hard drive.

I corrected this problem not only by turning off the Adobe security settings but the properties of the drive where you choose to extract the pdf page(s). Have to ensure under the Properties\Security\Edit that Authenticated Users have the Modify property enabled. By default, Windows 11 (quite possibly Windows 10) has this set to off.

[7iben]

Thank you for pointing out Adobe's security settings. I've done it now too. If I remove the tick (see screenshot) then everything works fine

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