Drag drop from desktop to XY not working

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tim11g
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Drag drop from desktop to XY not working

Post by tim11g »

I recently updated to XY 24.90.

I'm pretty sure drag-drop used to work to XY, but now if I drag a file from the desktop, I can't drop it in a folder in XY.
The cursor becomes the slash/circle icon when over XY's window.

Is there a settings change I need to adjust?
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xy123
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Re: Drag drop from desktop to XY not working

Post by xy123 »

tim11g wrote: 05 Sep 2023 17:58 The cursor becomes the slash/circle icon when over XY's window.
Here that only happens when trying to drop it to the same folder.

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Re: Drag drop from desktop to XY not working

Post by highend »

XY is running elevated?
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tim11g
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Re: Drag drop from desktop to XY not working

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highend wrote: 05 Sep 2023 18:51 XY is running elevated?
That's an interesting question. I was able to resolve the problem by closing XY and re-starting from the icon on the desktop.

So the next questions are:
1) why would XY disable drag/drop if running elevated?
2) what would cause XY to run elevated?
3) is there any situation where running XY elevated is required?
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Re: Drag drop from desktop to XY not working

Post by Horst »

tim11g wrote: 09 Sep 2023 16:44
highend wrote: 05 Sep 2023 18:51 XY is running elevated?
That's an interesting question. I was able to resolve the problem by closing XY and re-starting from the icon on the desktop.

So the next questions are:
1) why would XY disable drag/drop if running elevated?
Windows security doesn't allow this from normal privs to enhanced privs.
2) what would cause XY to run elevated?
You have an option set in the shortcut from which you are running XY
3) is there any situation where running XY elevated is required?
Yes, of course when you want to write into protected dirs like program files.
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Re: Drag drop from desktop to XY not working

Post by RalphM »

Another possible cause for 2.:
Depending on your update behaviour, i.e. if you run the XY..._Install.exe as admin, you end up with an elevated instance of XY, which you then need to close and restart with normal privileges again.
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