# How to disable the Add Data Dialog when dragging and dropping an .mrml file into Slicer?

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**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [February 5, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-to-disable-the-add-data-dialog-when-dragging-and-dropping-an-mrml-file-into-slicer/10131 "2020-02-05T21:34:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![jamesobutler](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/jamesobutler/32/7511_2.png) [@jamesobutler](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/jamesobutler)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 3:06am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-to-disable-the-add-data-dialog-when-dragging-and-dropping-an-mrml-file-into-slicer/10131/3 "2020-02-06T03:06:59Z")

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Recently I did some overriding of the drop event in Python. See this post [Add Drag and drop import to slicelet?](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/add-drag-and-drop-import-to-slicelet/9382/4)

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