Hi Friends,
I'm not really sure the right words to use to describe this. In the past, when for example, I would drag one node of a 2 node straight path, the node and the path would move all at once -- like stretching a rubberband. Lately, just the node has been moving. The line stays where it is until I release the mouse, and then the line jumps to it's new place. At first, I thought this was because I was working in a very large file, and it was a performance issue. But I've just started a brand new document, where performance should not be an issue. It's the only Inkscape doc open (542 kb due to imported JPG). (Usually I would need to be in the range of 3 mb to see a performance issue.) Yet I'm still having this weird behavior.

I've been trying to hold out until 0.48.3 comes out to upgrade from 0.48.1. I don't know why I think this, but I suspect either uninstall/reinstall, or upgrade will fix this. Although I can't explain why I think this. Neither restarting Inkscape or restarting computer will fix it. I guess I need to learn how to make a video, but at the moment, I can't show you what I mean. But hopefully my description will be enough.

Does anyone have any idea what might be happening? Or how to get back to the typical behavior?

Thanks for your help

Under Inkscape preferences > Tools > Node, do you have "Update path when dragging nodes" checked? Maybe you were playing with the options and...

Oh wow, that fixed it!
I have no idea how it got changed though. I can't even remember the last time I had Inkscape Preferences opened. Weird!

Thanks Uktrunie