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P.M.B
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December 16, 2018
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Running as Admin breaks drag-n-drop?

  • December 16, 2018
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Hey Community & other Humans,

So today while trouble shooting a problem with a plugin I ran AE as admin,  When I did I could no longer drag and drop files into the project panel.

Does anyone know the explanation for this?

Thanks

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    Correct answer imeilfx

    I'm old time AE user so I'm still importing files in traditional way so I use dragndrop method rarely. But as far as I remember in Admin mode you are not able to drag and drop.
    Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere works the same way. And it is not because of network drive. Files from standard HDD/SSD wont import that way also if in Admin mode.
    That's more Os restriction than Adobes.

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    P.M.B
    P.M.BAuthor
    Legend
    December 17, 2018

    Thanks!

    ~Gutterfish
    imeilfx
    imeilfxCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    December 16, 2018

    I'm old time AE user so I'm still importing files in traditional way so I use dragndrop method rarely. But as far as I remember in Admin mode you are not able to drag and drop.
    Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere works the same way. And it is not because of network drive. Files from standard HDD/SSD wont import that way also if in Admin mode.
    That's more Os restriction than Adobes.

    Satoer
    Satoer
    Participant
    December 16, 2018

    You are probably trying to drop a file from a network share. If you run AE (or any) application in admin mode, mapped network shared folders might not be available. Can you import the file by importing the normal way in AE? (right click => import in the project panel.)

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