How do you drag and drop photos in Lightroom 4?

[Composer27]

Yes, it's been asked before, but I can't seem to find a solution.  I'm in Lightroom 4 on Mac OS 10.7, and in Grid view I can't drag photos from one folder to another folder.  I am dragging the photo thumbnail, not the frame.  Have trashed all Lightroom preferences, restarted, etc.  It's driving me nuts!

[dorin_nicolaescu]

What happens when you try to drag?

[Composer27]

Absolutely nothing.  I'm not being facetious...nothing happens.  No cursor change, no nothing.

[RikkFlohr]

Do you have Write Permissions on the origin and destination?

[Composer27]

Yes, I have full permissions on both locations, and yes, I'm dragging the thumbnail, not the frame.

[web-weaver]

Are you dragging by the grey frame? You have to drag the image area itself not the grey frame.

[Downward Spiral]

I'm also having this trouble too. I've just upgraded to lightroom 5 from 4 and now I've lost the ability to drag and drop images into folders. I'm also attempting to make a book in the book module and as I'm unable to drag and drop it's impossible to do. Any suggesttions?

[BMM_Images]

Also having this issue all of a sudden. I've used LR since its inception, so I'm familiar with when you can and can't move/reorder photos, so this is a new issue after the LR5 last update, which seems to be a bug. I'm unable to drag and drop images any longer and it's wildly frustrating.

[BMM_Images]

Mine seems to have solved itself on a full shutdown and restart, as well as repairing permissions in OS X. Thankfully!

[WvomSaal]

Same problem with Lightroom 5.3, Windows.  I am moving photos around in a collection, and suddenly I am no longer able to move them.  Clicking on a photo does not "grab" the photo and allow you to move it.  Closing and re-opening the collection does not help.  Shutting down Lightroom and restarting it does solve the problem and everything works fine again.  Any ideas what is going on?

[Annnd2009]

Okay so sorry if this sounds stupid but I've been struggling with same and it was a matter of clicking on the photo not just in the surrounding space (which I thought is what I had been doing) but I'm new so ???  Just thought I'd offer because I know what it's like to feel like cursing for days on end...

[Downward Spiral]

I've now managed to sort my isse with not being able to drag and drop in lightroom 5. This seemed to happen after i upgraded to LR5 fro mLR4. Basically, I imported from a different collection and selected import from LR4 collection. this then restored my ability to drag and drop. Hope this helps.

[bc1112]

What's the status of this issue?  Recently purchased Lightroom 5, running on MS Surface Pro 3, same issue, happening intermittently.  There is no other option to move photos/videos to other folders within Lightroom, which makes this a pretty substantial bug that blocks my workflow.

[RikkFlohr · Accepted solution]

No issue. The users in this thread were grabbing in the wrong place to drag.

If you have a different issue you should start a new thread.

[jbfranzen]

I am also having this problem. Could you share with us the appropriate place to grab to drag?

[UnclePesto]

This is a bug and Adobe needs to fix this.  I upgraded to 5 Cloud and this is horrible!  Adobe please fix.  This is seriously impeding workflow and ability to deliver to clients.  HORRIBLE.

[mc_naz]

I was having the same problem and realized to move you have to click / drag on a photo.  If you try to drag and drop by clicking on the area surrounding the image it doesn't work.  Hope this helps.