When in Live mode, items in a Sim's inventory cannot be dragged and dropped in order to place them. It will just stay in the inventory. The only way to work around this is to click the item and then ...
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After installing Enchanted by Nature noticed I was unable to drag items from my sims inventory in Live mode. No mods installed but it was happening about 95 percent of the time and I as able to drag things to the world the other 5 percent.
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