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Can't drag and drop photos into Photoshop CS6

Community Beginner ,
Jan 03, 2013 Jan 03, 2013

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I'm having this problem since the last time I formatted my computer, and it is really annoying.

Basically, when I try to drag an image into photoshop, the cursors changes into a circle with a slash in it (unavailable).

I can open files by right clicking and choosing "Open with -> Adobe Photoshop CS6", and I can also open with "File > Open..." (ctrl+O)

I've searched for a soltion for this and nothing worked.

This is what I've tried doing so far:

- Resetting the preferences (ctrl+alt+shift)

- Running with administative rights

- Running without administrative rights

- Making sure I have premissions for the files

- Making sure the files are not set as read-only

- Changing the scratch disk option (Preference -> Performance)

None of these worked, and I'm looking for another solution...

Here are my PC specs:

OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit SP1

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 @ 2.50GHz

RAM: 4.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 400MHz

Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. G31M-ES2L

Graphic Card: 1024MB GeForce GT 240 (nVidia)

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Community Beginner , Feb 19, 2013 Feb 19, 2013

This thread might be considered old... but I found the solution and wanted to post it in case anybody else has the same problem.

After disabling UAC (User Account Control) I was able to drag and drop photos into Photoshop.

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Jan 03, 2013 Jan 03, 2013

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Update your graphics driver.

Mylenium

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Jan 03, 2013 Jan 03, 2013

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Here is a quote from a past post with same issue.  Thread had no answer the solved problem, but most agreed it was a permission problem.

13. Chris Cox,

    

  Sep 8, 2012 10:21 PM    in reply to blubbolopolis 

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Sounds like a corrupt registry issue -- the file extensions are not correctly associated with Photoshop.

The default install adds all the registry entries, so something has gone wrong since then with the registry entries for Photoshop 64 bit.

Have you used any "system optimizer" programs, or registry cleaners?

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Jan 05, 2013 Jan 05, 2013

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The default install adds all the registry entries

I tried re-installing and it did not solve the problem.

I believe that if it was a corrupt registry issue, it should've been fixed after reinstalling.

Update your graphics driver.

Done. Didn't help.

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Jan 05, 2013 Jan 05, 2013

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If the registry is corrupt, reinstalling wouldn't help.  (that would only help if the registry had bad entries, not database corruption).

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Jan 06, 2013 Jan 06, 2013

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Ok.. Do you have any idea on how to fix that corrupt registry?

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Feb 19, 2013 Feb 19, 2013

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This thread might be considered old... but I found the solution and wanted to post it in case anybody else has the same problem.

After disabling UAC (User Account Control) I was able to drag and drop photos into Photoshop.

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Oct 04, 2023 Oct 04, 2023

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Hey dude,

But I just set it up to UAC as not notify me but no luck. Even after restarting my machine but no luck. Please let me know if you have a other solution.

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Oct 04, 2023 Oct 04, 2023

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@wpsafar are you using CS6 from 2013?

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