Old 04-17-2019, 05:38 PM   #1
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always wondered why I can't just drag and drop an audio file onto the timeline with Reaper under windows. why is that ?
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Old 04-17-2019, 05:45 PM   #2
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always wondered why I can't just drag and drop an audio file onto the timeline with Reaper under windows. why is that ?
You can.
You can either do it from the Reaper Media Explorer: CTRL+ALT+X
Or from Windows explorer into Reaper.
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Old 04-17-2019, 07:09 PM   #3
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drag and drop doesn't work from explorer. the internal one always has
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Old 04-17-2019, 07:25 PM   #4
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works fine here from window's explorer and always has...
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Someone on the Facebook group was recently having the same issue. Don't think they found a solution.
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Old 04-17-2019, 07:47 PM   #6
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hmmmm.... very strange... never even heard of that before now..

It sounds like a problem in a particular windows system...

I wonder if it is true for other programs or just reaper???

for instance, can you drag and drop a jpeg onto Irfran view or other image viewer?
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Any chance you have Reaper running as admin?
In this case d'n'd from explorer/desktop doesn't work.
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Old 04-17-2019, 10:39 PM   #8
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I probably should have added I am using Windows 7, not sure if that is relevant or not.
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Old 04-18-2019, 12:17 AM   #9
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As Nofish said, Windows will not allow this if you run Reaper as admin.
Unless you install an alternative explorer and run that as admin too.
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Old 04-18-2019, 04:17 AM   #10
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^^ Or run Windows explorer also in admin mode (which is not recommended for security reasons though, afaik.)
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Old 04-21-2019, 03:42 PM   #11
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Sorry, out of the loop for a few days. Thanks for the replies.

Yes I do run as admin - an old linux habit. I'd never thought of that- well spotted!

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Old 04-22-2019, 05:06 PM   #12
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unfortunately even with admin unchecked I still can't dnd from desktop or explorer. internal explorer has always worked fine and still does. cheers
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Old 04-23-2019, 02:33 AM   #13
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I run Windows 7 and I have no problems with dragging sound files / samples from Windows Explorer into Reaper..
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