topic Re: Weird, drag and drop stopped working in Installation & update

Weird, drag and drop stopped working

Anonymous — Mon, 12 May 2014 07:29:10 GMT

Goodmorning,awesome forum,
weird thing...somehow drag & drop stopped working, I don't recall making any changes on any setting,maybe there is a hotkey toggling drag & drop on and off but for the life of me I cannot find something!

Re: Weird, drag and drop stopped working

Barry Kelly — Mon, 12 May 2014 08:58:19 GMT

Dragging and dropping what exactly, and from where to where?
Barry.

Re: Weird, drag and drop stopped working

Anonymous — Mon, 12 May 2014 09:06:09 GMT

jpgs, dxf etc, dragging from a folder to my plan.

Re: Weird, drag and drop stopped working

Barry Kelly — Mon, 12 May 2014 09:17:31 GMT

I am not aware of any setting to turn this off.

Are you sure you are dragging into the open plan in Archicad (with no other dialogue boxes open - i.e. you are ready to work in the plan) and are not just dragging onto the Archicad button in your task bar?

Have you tried restarting your machine? - the old IT fallback when nothing else seems to work.

Barry.

Re: Weird, drag and drop stopped working

Anonymous — Mon, 12 May 2014 09:41:15 GMT

unfortunately, yes and yes.
The weird thing is that it used to work perfectly and then it just stopped, thats why i am leaning towards accidentaly pressing a hotkey or something similar.

Re: Weird, drag and drop stopped working

Anonymous — Sat, 17 May 2014 08:03:45 GMT

I reinstalled Archicad and the problem remains.
It is localized only in archicad, I can drag and drop files to other programs,as usual.

Re: Weird, drag and drop stopped working

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 12:33:18 GMT

I have the same problem...
Didn't quite figure it out.

Re: Weird, drag and drop stopped working

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 12:58:50 GMT

Uninstalling / Reinstalling Java also doesn't work.
This is getting quite frustrating! :S

Re: Weird, drag and drop stopped working

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 07:50:58 GMT

SOLUTION (by BISuletz) : Disable "Run as admin"
Still cannot understand why this is happening, but at least now I know.
Cheers BISuletz

Re: Weird, drag and drop stopped working

Laszlo Nagy — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 20:20:13 GMT

Where do you have to disable "Run as Admin"? In the Properties of the Archicad.exe file?

Re: Weird, drag and drop stopped working

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 06:02:20 GMT

Goodmorning,
ooops, instead of reply I accidentaly pressed "report" on laszlonagy's comment. If, lets say, a site admin, sees this,please disregard it. 😉
Yes, I had to disable it from the archicad.exe file

Re: Weird, drag and drop stopped working

Barry Kelly — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 06:04:42 GMT

Anestis wrote:
ooops, instead of reply I accidentaly pressed "report" on laszlonagy's comment. If, lets say, a site admin, sees this,please disregard it. 😉

Ahh- we will have to ban Laszlo now.

Barry.

Re: Weird, drag and drop stopped working

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 07:22:15 GMT

He is a troll in disguise!

Re: Weird, drag and drop stopped working

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:18:59 GMT

I wonder what would happen if I banned myself.
Anyway, I am not going to try.

OK, so the solution was that you had to disable the "Run this program as an administrator" checkbox in the Properties of the ArchiCAD.exe file.

My theory about this is that when drag-and-dropping files into the ArchiCAD Window, if you have this checkbox checked, the system does not let you do it unless you prove you are an admin, but there is no Dialog that pops up where you can do that so the system does not allow the operation. When it is not checked the drag-and-drop works normally.

Re: Weird, drag and drop stopped working

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 13:21:20 GMT

I came to the same conclusion myself, but I have to admit that it does not make sense. The whole point of running stuff as admin, is to start with admin priviledges, right from the beginning.

Re: Weird, drag and drop stopped working

arqtonyr — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 13:10:49 GMT

Same problem, you meant the archicad exe file?

Regards

Re: Weird, drag and drop stopped working

Barry Kelly — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 01:36:55 GMT

You have replied to a 7 year old post, so don't expect the original posters to respond.

Reading the later posts, yes you have to turn off 'Run as Admin' for the Archicad.exe file.

Barry.

Re: Weird, drag and drop stopped working

arqtonyr — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 21:56:49 GMT

Hello, yes! I know it was an old post, but I figured it was my way to solve it, and no, running as administrator did not resolve the issue, meanwhile I'm using the drawing tool dialog to do this task, which is time consuming.

Regards

Re: Weird, drag and drop stopped working

Barry Kelly — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 02:15:00 GMT

The post says to 'Disable Run as Administrator'.

Barry.