So I upgraded Inkscape and suddenly dropping images and svgs into an open Inkscape window didn’t load them into the svg. “Import” worked fine from the menus but the drag-and-drop method failed silently.
I was pretty sure the upgrade had broken itself, but as it turns out it had to do with how I was running Inkscape. After the install, it asked “do you want to run Inkscape now”, and I said yes. Apparently, this causes Inkscape to run with elevated permissions, since the installer was in turn running with elevated permissions.
As it happens, running Inkscape with elevated permissions prevents drag and drop file loads. Who knew?
Well thanks for the heads-up, I’ve been thinking about installing the new version. Do you need to uninstall the previous or does it overwrite?
I wonder what improvments it brings?
I used the exe installer, and it asked if I wanted to uninstall the previous version. It also asked if I wanted to keep my preferences etc, which I did. My default template, color palette, and preferences saved no problem.
It went fine, except for the running at elevated permissions thing. Just say “no” to the launch option, and manually start it instead, no problems.