Running Monterey 12.6.4 on 2016 MacBook Pro. My downloads folder is behaving strangely: when I try to move an item from Downloads to another folder, I am unable to drag it. Instead, the item becomes selected and wants to open. How do Restore drag-and-drop behavior?
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Downloads folder will not let me move item
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Here is a method of letting macOS recreate the Downloads folder, hopefully with the correct behavior:
If you have something important in Downloads, make a copy somewhere else, just in case.
From Terminal, rename Downloads to Downloads0 (or anything else) and logout.
The newly created Downloads folder should behave normally and the old one, Downloads0, should have all the files.
If you have something important in Downloads, make a copy somewhere else, just in case.
From Terminal, rename Downloads to Downloads0 (or anything else) and logout.
Code:
sudo mv ~/Downloads ~/Downloads0