Can't drag/drop files onto bookmarked folders

There's a bug upstream at : https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=661837

 -- This shouldn't be "wishlist", as it's actually a regression from Ubuntu 11.04. Dragging to bookmarks worked with the older Nautilus just fine.

 -- At least for me, this applies to self-made bookmarks only. Dragging to the predefined bookmarks (Desktop, Pictures, Music, ...) works just fine. Too bad these predefined ones are rarely useful on a productivity PC.

There's another Gnome bug tracking this: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645353

Diagnosis: instead of making a working feature dummy-proof, they removed the feature because it's not dummy-proof.

OUCH!

Why has this been marked Invalid? It's regression, no? You could always drop files into bookmarked folders before and now you can't, which is pretty frustrating.

You could read the GNOME bug to know the reply to your question...

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus - 1:3.5.1-0ubuntu6

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nautilus (1:3.5.1-0ubuntu6) quantal; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/git_no_assert_on_double_mount.patch: lp: #1007593
    "sidebar: don't forget to NULL slot pointer after volume is mounted"
  * debian/patches/git_bookmark_place_dnd.patch: lp: #874386, #920691
    "places-sidebar: allow dropping of files to bookmarks"
  * debian/patches/git_no_menubars_segfault.patch: lp: #1003771
    "window-menus: disconnect from GtkSettings notifications on finalize"
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 12 Jun 2012 21:28:08 +0200

Is there any chance that this will be backported to 12.04 Precise? (I mean that SRU thing or what mechanism is used for fixes like that.)

@Jan: yes, that's being worked on

Hello CaptSaltyJack, or anyone else affected,

Accepted nautilus into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users. If this package fixes the bug for you please change the bug tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not, change the tag to verification-failed. In either case details of your testing will help us make a better decision. Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

This is great! I'd like to thank the developers who worked on this to make it happen. Your efforts are hugely appreciated!

I'll enable the proposed source and watch for this.

You're welcome, the source should be available in proposed for testing if you want to verify if it's working for you

Tested, works great! Not too sure how to change the bug to reflect that though.

> Tested, works great!

Thanks for testing

> Not too sure how to change the bug to reflect that though.

the list of tags is at the bottom of the description, a working fix is reflected with: verification-needed -> verification-done, I did that update

It works fine for me. I have local bookmarks and two SSH bookmarks. The hand icon reflects that the file will be either moved or copied over appropriately. No prob.

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus - 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu3

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nautilus (1:3.4.2-0ubuntu3) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/git_bookmark_place_dnd.patch:
    - "places-sidebar: allow dropping of files to bookmarks" (lp: #874386)
  * debian/patches/git_image_properties_wrapping.patch:
    - "image-properties: set the description label to wrap" (lp: #396279)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:52:04 +0200

Not working for 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu4 - can't add a bookmark by dragging a file folder to the side bar.

True, but that's a different issue. Moving files by dragging onto bookmarks works now, which is what this bug is about.

No. Moving files by dragging onto bookmarks does NOT work now :-)

Version info:
* Ubuntu 12.04
* Nautilus 3.4.2

I'm not sure why some people are saying it is fixed. Maybe it IS in some versions?

It's fixed at least in version "3.5.90.really.3.4.2-0ubuntu4.1" (in the about dialog it's 3.4.2)
apparently it's not in the 12.04 repositories... I don't know if it's worth it for you to ask/wait for someone to backport it, you might be better off upgrading

Same problem here too.

Version info:
 - ubuntu 12.10
 - nautilus 3.4.2