Drag and Drop excel files Issue

[Soxfaninfl]

Hello Everyone,

For some reason, I am unable to drag and drop excel files (xlsx & xls) onto my canvas. I'm running the following Alteryx Designer version: 

I'm not sure if "Running Elevated" has something to do with it?

Thanks,

mackedet

[DataNath]

@Soxfaninfl a few of my colleagues had this issue and it indeed came from running it as Elevated (running as Administrator).

To get around this you can go to properties > advanced and untick 'Run as Adminstrator':

[Soxfaninfl]

I don't have it checked.

[DataNath]

Even though your default is set to that, is there a chance that you opened Alteryx as an administrator? I believe the issue comes from a Windows feature which prevents users from moving files from an area of lower privilege (in this case your file explorer), to one of a higher security (i.e. Alteryx where you're running Elevated/as an Administrator).

[Qiu]

@DataNath 
Thanks for the great tip.

@Soxfaninfl 
I can replicate the comment of @DataNath , after unchecking the option "Run as administrator" I was not able to drag and drop.
Maybe you can just reinstall the alteryx if not too much hustle? 

[Soxfaninfl]

Yes, I guess I will try to uninstall and reinstall the application.