[X4U] Can't Drag Desktop Icons

[Chris Long]

I had this problem once as well... check to see if you can copy and 
paste between apps and documents.  The problem I had was with the 
process that runs the clipboard.  I am trying to remember how I went 
about fixing it, but I think there was a post somewhere on an Apple 
Discussion Board.

Look at the logs in Concole to see if there are errors referencing 
"PasteboardUI server" or PBS... this is the actual process you will see 
in Activity monitor.

The only discussion I can find now gives this command to restart it...

nohup /System/Library/CoreServices/pbs &

I think I had to delete some prefs or something too.

Chris



On Mar 14, 2005, at 6:35 AM, David R.Boag wrote:

> I'm forwarding a message from a friend who is having this problem.
>
> Forwarded message:
>
> Hello Gurus
>  
> one of my macs...
> an iMac G4 with a screen on a stick..
> is doing something unusual..
>  
> it is running
> OSX 10.2.8
>  
> and apparently decided sometime on thursday
> not to allow me to drag icons on my desktop anymore..
> actually I can't drag any icons anywhere..
> makes copying files from disks...
> and placing my icons in fun positions..
> and dragging stuff to the trash impossible..
>  
> the mouse works....its an apple optical..
>  
> everything else..the doc...etc the superdrive..
> you name it...it works..
> just can't move files by dragging and dropping
> can make aliases....copy and paste...
>  
> can't click and drag...well I can click...and it hilights
> the icon...just can't move them or do anything with them
> can click on files where they are and open them...
> menus work....even volume lever drags up and down...
>  
> so I don't think its the optical mouse..
>  
> did I or someone inadvertantly lock icons or something?
>  
> any ideas.?
>  
>  
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