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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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Anonymous
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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
Barry Kelly
Moderator
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.
One of the forum moderators.
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Anonymous
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He is a troll in disguise!
Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin
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.
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Anonymous
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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.

Same problem, you meant the archicad exe file?

 

Regards

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.

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

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

The post says to 'Disable Run as Administrator'.

 

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