Comment 30 for bug 61237

I second this bug, this has been a source of endless annoyance for years!

I don't like to use the words Windows and Usability in the same sentence, but they've actually solved this user interface idiocy very easily by the DnD selecting the folder you're in (not any of the subfolders) when you move the mouse to a column different from the "name" one, i.e. every other column (type, date, permission, owner, group, etc.) is treated as whitespace for DnD.

This makes sense because you're no longer pointing directly at a directory where you want to drop the files. The error Nautilus makes is to assume that there is an invisible row all the way across the interface. Which means that when your DnD is pointing at for instance the 'type' column, Nautilus is still going to drop your files in the folder that the row corresponds to.