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Weird, drag and drop stopped working

Anonymous
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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!
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Barry Kelly
Moderator
Dragging and dropping what exactly, and from where to where?
Barry.
One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
i7-10700 @ 2.9Ghz, 32GB ram, GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11
Anonymous
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jpgs, dxf etc, dragging from a folder to my plan.
Barry Kelly
Moderator
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.
One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
i7-10700 @ 2.9Ghz, 32GB ram, GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11
Anonymous
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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.
Anonymous
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I reinstalled Archicad and the problem remains.
It is localized only in archicad, I can drag and drop files to other programs,as usual.
Anonymous
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I have the same problem...
Didn't quite figure it out.
Anonymous
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Uninstalling / Reinstalling Java also doesn't work.
This is getting quite frustrating! :S
Anonymous
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SOLUTION (by BISuletz) : Disable "Run as admin"
Still cannot understand why this is happening, but at least now I know.
Cheers BISuletz
Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin
Where do you have to disable "Run as Admin"? In the Properties of the Archicad.exe file?
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