Friday, December 27, 2024

Drag and drop, broken in Sequoia

What was I doing wrong? I couldn’t drag a file to a folder. I couldn’t drag an image into an app.

I tried restarting — no soap, and looked around online. The problem is in macOS 15, and I find it almost unbelievable that Apple could release new system software with such a glaring problem. Hardly an intelligent move. (Ahem.)

A temporary fix, from the developer of Yoink and other apps: open the Activity Monitor, choose CPU or Memory, and quit the process ScopedBookmarkAgent. I’m not sure how long that fix will work, but it’s working for me now.

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And still working, even though ScopedBookmarkAgent is up and running again.

comments: 2

Anonymous said...

I love idioms; they add a bit of flavor to any writing. I consider “no soap” an old-school idiom, one that I rarely see in contemporary writing. I’m interested in how some idioms came to be. Several sources gave possible origins for “no soap” but none were definitive.

Michael Leddy said...

I know, or think I know, that “No soap, radio” was the punchline to a joke that made no sense (to see if the listener would laugh). But I see a large DO NOT ENTER sign in front of that rabbit hole. :)