New Windows 11 file explorer can't drag and drop in address bar

😂 Mind bogglingly, file explorer now lets me drag files to the address bar again after applying the poem.

Hi,

I'm really upset of the new adress bar because I can't drag and drop anymore files to parent folder like in old file explorer adress bar

Can you fix the problem in a close future update or tell me how to change this back to old version (exist in windows 11 file explorer)

The new adress bar is above the tools bar (New - Cut - Copy - etc), the old one is bellow

I had a client upset over this issue. I suggested the utility Q-Dir - she was satisfied with this solution. Just FYI for you folks.

Agree, I was surprised of the change myself. It makes it harder to interact with folders in explorer. When faced with setbacks like this, I try to take a step back and look at it from a different angle, and try to use what we still have available, to solve the issue at hand. Remember that there is more than one way to perform most actions. The only optional way I could see right now was to add an additional step and do this:

Let's say I browse to a folder in explorer and want to drag the folder in the address bar to the desktop, as a shortcut link. In the new Win11 Explorer, dragging from address bar is no longer available, so we can no longer do it this way... ☹️

So that option is not available to us any more.
So what we can still do is move up to the parent folder's contents by going up one folder (Alt+up-arrow).

By doing this, the "Source folder" we want to use is no longer in the address bar, but in the parent folders contents. Right drag the folder to the desktop(or other destination) and release. The context menu will pop-up, and we can now select the option we want to perform. In this case we are making a short-cut to the folder on the desktop, so we choose that.

Now we have our folder shortcut.

If you have two tabs open, you can also drag the folder in the first tab, to the other tab, and once it switches to it, you can drop it into that folder. Alternatively, you can open two explorer windows if desired, and drag between them.

I do agree that I used that feature a lot and wish they could add it back, but we make due with what we got. We did get some cool new features in explorer when they added tabs, but we also lost a few features a lot may use. I'm hoping they keep improving the UI and eventually add the option back in, but for now we have an alternative to do what we need to do and move forward.

Hope this helps a little....
Regards.

this is "good" only if you are copying a few files between two folders and this is not a problem really. But using this method you can't sort files if you have a structure like this C:/Archive/2023/Portfolio/Designs/Temp. let's say in this folder you have many files, some are sources some are other things now being in this folder you can drag your files for future sorting into other folders right? For example, you want to drag and drop into designs and there is another file that is not connected with the portfolio at all but is from 2023 so you can drag and drop it into the 2023 folder, and so on. So this cut and paste in this case will give you a headache and something that would take a minute will take 5 its a waste of time and productivity.