Unable to drag and drop

disable the "skip transform when placing" under Edit > Preferences > General >
Works for me. Hope it helps!

Hi guys, i got it working.

Apparently after browsing the web i narrowed it down to this.

The issue is, or atleast mine was that i ran photoshop as admin.

And on windows 10 i was dragging files from folders onto photoshop and this used to work, but not anymore.

The problem is explorer.exe not to be confused with iexplorer.exe, if i right clicked explorer.exe and under the security tab:
I found that only TrustedInstaller had full control, i changed the "Owner" to admin -> me. Then i could change the admin/MyUser rights to full control, i rebooted and voila. Works!

I had to look alot to find a fix that doesnt mess with UAC and your windows apps.

This worked for me, as the problem was that you cant drag and drop files from a program with lower user rights than the program you drop em´ into.

Hope this helps you getting back to your old workflow.

Sincerely, Peter.

Hey, do you have any solution about your problem? i can't use drag and drop or place anything to my work area in my ps cc 2017

I just fixed mine by not running as administrator. Adobe support enabled that on a call earlier, and it messed things up. Way to go, counter help!

One solution is to right-click the shortcut for Photoshop CC and click "OPEN" - this will allow drag-and-drop. Not sure why.

It happend to me also ,I use to drag pictures to photoshop before, that's when I was using window 7 but after changing my computer which is now using window 8.1 I found it difficult to drag pictures into photoshop .......what I did was this............. right click on photoshop icon on your desktop,  the go to PROPERTY,  then COMPATIBILITY, then go to COMPATIBILITY MODE, then mark the program to run in compatibility mode,  in the flyout below I choosed Windows 8.......and press ok..... I tried it again and it works..... thanks......

If you are running Photoshop as administrator, Try running Bridge as administrator as well. You will be able to drag and drop from Bridge into Photoshop since they are both elevated to administrator rights.

This helped me ...

Go to Start > Run > then type:  regedit     (then press enter).

The windows registry editor will now open.

You now need to follow this route through the registry editor:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Policies > System

Then Find this Key EnableLUA, Double Click on it and change the Value data from 1 to 0.

After pressing OK you’ll notice in the task bar a message pops up saying UAC is now disabled and a restart is required.

After the restart everything will run as it did on Windows 7,  Ensure you’ve untagged “Run as Administrator” on your app shortcuts.

I had have win 8 64 with same  issue  Aftereffects  cs6 no drag / drop.  However  after reading some post it seem the problem  is user set with Admin security.   I created  a second USER ID w/o Admin properties  and all drag/ drop works fine.  You can set file share folder for new id

Hello! I Am Having the same exact problem but i actually figured it out! I Will Make a video on it so you can see how to but it will still have the Circle with the cross but you will be able to drag anything back into it!