Unable to drag and drop picture

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I am on windows.

I am trying to drag and drop a .jpg from file explorer, but it is not working.
Is that a bug?

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where are you dropping? On an open document?

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Yes indeed, or even onto the file explorer.
In either case, the mouse gets replaced with an X circle. I tried to take a screenshot, but for some reason, it doesn’t save the state of the mouse!

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it should work when you drag and drop on an open document. If it doesn’t, can you make a short video?
With loop or something similar?

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Here we go. I created a new blank project, so the default settings are used.
Bug Demo

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Thanks, never seen that shape of the mouse in windows.

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Me neither. is it something that has to do with my windows in particular, or a windows problem in general?

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I don’t know if you have some program running that interferes with drag and drop? You can try to stop all the background programs/utilities you have and see what happens.

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So i ran a few cleanup based on this and that seemed to solve the problem because I didn’t do anything other than this.

Anyway, looks good now! Thx for the support @WhiteNoise

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This drag and drop function does not work for me on a new Mac Catalina. My system work perfectly fine and I can drag and drop pictures in two other MD editors including Typora and Joplin. However, this does not work in the latest version of Obsidian.

Thanks

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This will be the same answer as before. Can you please upload a gif or video showing the problem?

I’m on MacOS Catalina, and it works for me.

Are you dragging into Edit Mode (should work) or Preview Mode? (this will not work!)

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Hi, I am dragging to the edit mode but it still not working. Copy and paste a picture does work, though!
Thanks

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Where are you dragging from?

Can you post a gif or video? Otherwise, there isn’t much that can be done. It works fine on my Mac.