Cannot Drag and Drop from desktop or anywhere into XYplorer

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hermhart
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Cannot Drag and Drop from desktop or anywhere into XYplorer

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Anyone have any idea as to why, since I upgraded to Windows 10 two days ago, I can no longer drag and drop files from Windows Desktop or from Windows Explorer into XYplorer? I have not changed any settings and everything worked great before the upgrade.
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Re: Cannot Drag and Drop from desktop or anywhere into XYplo

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Rebooting Windows will fix that.

hermhart
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Re: Cannot Drag and Drop from desktop or anywhere into XYplo

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Sadly, I have tried that a few times and it did not fix it.
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Re: Cannot Drag and Drop from desktop or anywhere into XYplo

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Really? This fixed it always for others.

So, what do you get, an error?

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Re: Cannot Drag and Drop from desktop or anywhere into XYplo

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I have absolutely no problems with D&D from Desktop on Win10 Pro over here.

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Re: Cannot Drag and Drop from desktop or anywhere into XYplo

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I keep my XYplorer (portable) in the installed Dropbox folder on my computer. Something I tried is copying my XYplorer folder to the Desktop and launching it there. When launching it from the Desktop copy, everything works fine. No settings were changed, just a direct copy from the Dropbox folder to Desktop. Any possible suggestions?
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Re: Cannot Drag and Drop from desktop or anywhere into XYplo

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Strangely I got this to work. All I did was move the XYplorer folder from one place to another, still in Dropbox, and that alone fixed it. It makes no sense to me, but that did the trick.
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Re: Cannot Drag and Drop from desktop or anywhere into XYplo

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It might have been a rights issue. If you run XY as admin you cannot drop to it from sources with lesser rights.

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