The Help file indicates that I should be able to drag-and-drop with the right button and display a menu that lets you select Copy, Move or Create Shortcut as the action. But when I right click on a file and attempt to drag it over to the other pane, all I see is a line that the mouse makes while I attempt to copy the file. I don't see, as Windows usually will show, the option to copy, move, or create a shortcut. This is on a Windows 8 desktop. Any idea how I can correct this so I can use the right button drag and drop feature?
Drag & drop is handled by the application you drop on to, not the one you drag from, so the menu you see (or lack of) is up to the desktop in this case, rather than Opus.
You should normally see a menu when RMB dragging to the desktop, however. Do you see the menu if you do the same thing, with the same path & file, from File Explorer to the desktop?
I'm actually getting the same symptom when I use the Windows file manager. It's not just Opus, it seems. I right click on a file and then drag the mouse. A line appears and follows the dragging mouse, kind of like being in a Paint program and making a drawing. The line will follow the mouse until I let go the mouse button and then the line disappears. Weird symptom. Any idea of what might be going on and how I can fix it and get back the ability to right click and then choose copy, move, or create shortcut? Many thanks.
Pardon the intrusion, but I don't think anything was originally said about dropping to the desktop. "Windows 8 desktop" probably referred to the machine, not the drop location.
that shows the symptom I'm having with the right mouse click drag and drop problem. Thanks very much for checking out and letting me know what you think. I would love to resolve this issue!
It looks like you're installed an annotation tool (or maybe a mouse driver setting) that has hijacked the right mouse button so that it draws lines on the screen instead of the normal RMB action.
Not sure which tool it might be as I don't recognise it, but it's not an Opus issue and seems to be affecting your whole system, as it's changed what the mouse button does.
I think I may have discovered the culprit! When I disable AcroTray as a service or running process (something that Adobe Acrobat installs), the symptom seems to disappear. I'm hoping that disabling AcroTray won't cause other problems, but I'm glad to have the right click context menu back again.
I'm also wondering if Opus is configurable so that it will always copy when I left click and drag a file, whether it's to the same partition or to a different partition? Thanks for letting me know about that.