[Casper] Can't drag items on desktop.

[Ryan Harter]

Turns out this was the problem.  I deleted the .DS_Store file in the  
user's desktop, when she logged out and back in the problem was gone.

Thanks to Jonah Klevesahl at Jamf for this one!

Ryan Harter
UW - Stevens Point
Workstation Developer
715.346.2716
Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu

On Jan 14, 2009, at 11:08 AM, Jonah Klevesahl wrote:

> Hey Ryan,
>
> I ran into this issue once before after installing an app where drag- 
> copy
> wouldn't work, but terminal copy would and it was the result of a  
> corrupted
> .DS_Store file in /Users/username/Desktop. Might be worth a shot?
>
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>> From: Ryan Harter <rharter at uwsp.edu>
>> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:38:48 -0800
>> To: Apple - WI-Edu <wi-edu at lists.apple.com>, List Casper
>> <casper at list.jamfsoftware.com>, Keith Mountin <mountin at apple.com>
>> Subject: [Casper] Can't drag items on desktop.
>>
>> Hey all-
>>
>> I just imaged a machine with our standard build.  There's nothing  
>> unusual
>> about it.  After the image I installed CS4 Design suite and Quark 8  
>> from DVD.
>>
>> Now, for some reason, whenever the user logs in the items on her  
>> desktop are
>> un-draggable.  All of the permissions are correct.  I double  
>> checked this by
>> opening the Terminal in her account and cp'ing a file from her  
>> desktop to
>> another folder that she is unable to do through the gui.  This  
>> works fine
>> under her account from the Terminal, but the GUI doesn't work.
>>
>> Now one of the really strange things about this is that the GUI  
>> doesn't
>> respond like it doesn't have permissions to the file or desktop.   
>> She can
>> select the icon and it highlights, she can right click it and get  
>> info, or
>> compress it and it will create the zip archive right next to it on  
>> the
>> desktop.  But when she attempts to drag the icon, normally the icon  
>> turns
>> translucent and follows the mouse, but this is not the case in this  
>> instance.
>> It highlights the icon but the icon doesn't move.
>>
>> This is a weird issue that I've never come across before.  Does  
>> anyone have
>> any clue why this might be happening?
>>
>>
>> Ryan Harter
>> UW - Stevens Point
>> Workstation Developer
>> 715.346.2716
>> Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu <mailto:Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu>
>>
>>

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