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

No worries, I was just trying to explain the case, didn't know that you knew about it :) Yeah, same here with Windows 10 :( It was a very bad design choice by Microsoft.. Cheers!

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.

Please don't get me wrong. I was never saying that cut and paste is a substitute for drag and drop to the address bar. I was only pointing out that cut and paste may be easier than drag and drop to an interim location (at least in some cases).

I too want to see the return of drag and drop to the address bar. It's removal is a downgrade. For now, I'll stick with Windows 10 or, if I must use Windows 11, I'll revert Explorer to the previous version or the Windows 10 version, as long as that's still possible.

I have the same problem. My work-around is this:

1. move the file or files to the desktop. (If you have a lot of files to move, make a temporary folder on the desktop and move the files there).,
2. Switch to the higher level folder or directory.
3. Move the files from the desktop to the higher level folder that you are now in.

As with so much else that Microsoft does, what were they thinking?

Unbelievable ... what a **** update

Agreed with everyone here and filed feedback into the black hole of the Feedback hub.