[Qgis-user] Drag and drop files into QGIS - Silly Question

[Tony Shepherd (FarmMaps NZ)]

Hi

I have figured it out.  I'm using 3.8.2.  If I open QGIS using the windows option "Run as Administrator", drag and dropping any data (spatial or non spatial) files into QGIS appears to be disabled.  A normal starting of QGIS and it is as Mike says  "drag and drop come naturally" and it appears to work as normal.

Sorry for wasting anybody's time, but thought it worth commenting on what I discovered.

Cheers
Tony

-----Original Message-----
From: Qgis-user <qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> On Behalf Of Mike Flannigan
Sent: Friday, 30 August 2019 12:30 pm
To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Drag and drop files into QGIS - Silly Question


Hi,

Don't be surprised if I am wrong, but I say drag and drop comes naturally and you cannot turn it off.

Try Layer - Add Layer - Add Vector Layer.

Does that work?

Are you on Windows?

I use 3.2.0 on Win7.


Mike



On 8/29/2019 2:11 AM, qgis-user-request at lists.osgeo.org wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I have a brand new PC, have set up QGIS, exported and imported my QGIS 
> profile from my old PC and all is working perfectly with QGIS and 
> added plugins ect apart from the ability to drag and drop shp file (or 
> MapInfo tab or any files) directly into the layer panel in QGIS.  Am I 
> missing something obvious, but for the life of me I can't find any 
> setting that may enable or disable this or much on the web about it?
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Tony

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