Can't Drag and Drop from pages bar in Acrobat XI Pro for Mac?

Eventually fixed in Acrobat DC (2015.016.20045) on OSX.

After so many years....

This is a total joke, I know exactly the issue you are having.  It works perfectly fine on Windows 10 but on Mac Acrobat Pro is terrible.  Here's an example of what works in Windows and not in Mac:

- I open a 5 page PDF that I created, add the customer name and save it as PDF sending it to them for signature.

- Customer sends only the last 2 pages back which are the signature pages, so I need to delete the last 2 pages from the original PDF, and then add the 2 signed pages to the end.

- On Windows Acrobat Pro (latest version) you open the original, click Organize Pages, delete the last 2, then open the new PDF with 2 pages signed, click Organize pages, highlight both 2 pages, DRAG them to the TAB for the original PDF which opens that tab, and then you position them where you want them in the document just like moving pages around in the same PDF.

- Let go of the mouse and ta da it works.

On Mac this doesn't work at all.  You go to Organize pages, highlight the ones you want, drag them to the tab above and nothing happens, it never opens the stupid tab.  It's not a protected PDF or anything, doesn't work on any, so I have to keep using Parallels JUST to manipulate PDFs.  You can't even copy and paste them into It's ridiculous.

To the OP, the easiest workaround I found is drag one of the tabs out to detach it and put it in its own window, then you can drag and drop them like before.

At least in Windows Acrobat DC, you can go into preferences and turn off the tabbed function in order to restore the original way the product works.  Presto, you can drag and drop thumbnails between open documents again rather than do this ridiculous "extract" stuff.

After years of using an old version, I finally forked out the money for the newest version and this sucks that I can't drag and drop pages into finder. Doubles my work.

Helloooo??

Adobe???

Is anybody listening??

Hello there, this thread is from 2013, now it's almost 2016 and yes, IT'S STILL A BUG.

Page extraction via drag-and-drop on Mac OSX in Acrobat Pro (on unprotected documents) does not work!

One word: unacceptable.

I was having drag and drop troubles too. I also noticed that in my properties it said "Extracting: Not Allowed"

I realized that my files were opening up within Adobe Acrobat Reader DC and not within Adobe Acrobat Pro. Closing both files and using the "open with" function to get to Adobe Acrobat Pro fixed the problem. I can now drag and drop pdf pages into my working document.

I'm on Adobe Acrobat DC on newest version of Mac.  Two major problems.  1) As you mentioned, you cannot drag and drop pages/thumbnails from one PDF to another, as I can in older versions of Acrobat.  BUT THE CRAZY THING IS when I first opened the new Acrobat DC I WAS ABLE to drag & drop.  But the next time I went to use the function, it no longer lets me.  2) Why the hell doesn't Adobe allow me to keep thumbnails open?!   Every time I open a new document, I have to go to View > Show/Hide > Navigation Panes > Thumbnails to turn it on.... it won't let me lock the setting!  WTH kind of idiots make this crap, the older versions worked fine.  Even when I go to  View > Show/Hide > Navigation Panes > Show Navigation Pane, it still WONT lock my setting.  Every time I open a new PDF I have to use the drop downs to be able to work. 

All you MVPs aren't reading the OP question.

This is not to drag (from thumbnail pane) from 1 acrobat window to another.

It's to drag from the thumbnail pane to the desktop (which in turn creates a PDF file with the pages that you selected in the thumbnail pane)

This was possible on OS X 2 versions of Acrobat ago. Was hoping DC would fix it. But no.

Okay guys.  I am still running Windows XP, but it's a don't care situation.  In the thumbnails pane, highlight the pages you want to move over to the other thumbnails pane.  when the hand is present, on a thumbnail, and hold the ALT-key down, when you attempt to drag the pages.

Steven Moshlak

http://www.computelerlegalexperts.com

Macbook Pro Acrobat XI

Open the Original File

Use Extract Pages.

Open up the Thumbnails, click on the ones you wish to extract

Right Click one of the selected items.

Choose Extract Pages

Popup lets you change selection items, then

Choose Delete the selected item in the original document or Not

Then OK.

Name the new file and place it in the directory you want.