Alt + Drag to duplicate not working in Photoshop

[juliana1234567]

So I normally use the key Alt and Drag an object to duplicate them on Photoshop, but ever since I upgraded to Photoshop 2020, this is not working. 
Is this a bug? How can I restore this?

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Depends on what you actually mean. 

With Layers at least I can alt-drag to duplicate both on the Canvas and in the Layers Panel, so please explain, maybe post some meaningful screenshots to illustrate. 

Please read this (in particular the section titled "Supply pertinent information for quicker answers"):

https://community.adobe.com/t5/Community-Help/Guidelines-Tips-for-the-Adobe-Forums/td-p/4788157

[omchy]

Hi had the same problem, I solved it by quitting Spotify and restarting PSD, sometimes Spotify has weird effects on the Adobe Products.

[Trevor.Dennis]

The screen capture shortcuts in Nvidia Experience also take priority over some Photoshop shortcuts.  If you have this problem, open Nvidia from the Windows taskbar, click on the settings cog icon, and turn off IN-GAME-OVERLAY

[bhux1]

The "Auto Select" tick box at the top of the tool bar is on - turn that off and everything goes back to normal!! took me 3 hours to work it out and couldn't find anything else on this forum site.

Hopefully this helps someone else.

[Yashwant23689105tp00]

yeah this is a bug, they should really fix this. 

[c.pfaffenbichler]

If it is a bug please provide clear steps to reproduce it. 

[alecAgratina]

Same issue.

Regular behaviour : in the layer panel, you can drag and drop a layer (or an effect) to change its position (the Hope it's clear. 

[jane-e]

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@alecAgratina wrote:

Same issue.

Regular behaviour : in the layer panel, you can drag and drop a layer (or an effect) to change its position (the Hope it's clear. 

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That's not the same issue at all, Alec. Reordering layers in the Layers panel and copying pixel in the document are two completely different things. Please start a new post and clarify your issue so we can better assist.

Jane

[alecAgratina]

The text edit of my previous post is also bugged 😞

So, I 've got the same issue.

Same issue.

Regular behaviour : in the layer panel, you can drag and drop a layer (or an effect) to change its position (the pointer the turns into a fist. If you hold the alt (option) key during the operation, the layer (or effect) is duplicated (a tiny " + " is displayed over the fist pointer)

Bug : holding alt(option) key is not effective (the " + " sign won't show). You can drag and drop but layer or effect is not duplicated.

[MTRPhoto]

Did anyone ever find an answer to this? If I've got what you're saying right. For me, the problem is that alt + drag will duplicate the object but it does it on the same layer and doesn't duplicate and make a new layer. Was there ever a settings change or fix for this?

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Did you make a Selection before dragging?