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Hi,
I'm really upset of the new address bar because I can't drag and drop anymore files to parent folder like in old file explorer address 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 address bar is above the tools bar (New - Cut - Copy - etc), the old one is bellow
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I'm surprised how often I used this. Every day I still try to either click on a folder in the bar or drag a file to it, and then realize I can't do that. I hope Microsoft reconsiders this change and re-implements the feature in an upcoming build, because it is SORELY missed and takes extra steps now to do things I used to do every day.
ExplorerPatcher can give you the old one back. I cannot run Windows 11 without it due to some changes that I think they had ab tested with infants.
Between this and the change in no longer having the downloads bar at the bottom, it's really messing with my workflow. Thanks windows.
This is absolutely ridiculous. I tried a number of times and wondered what was wrong with me. Let's hope it gets restored soon!
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.
