Hello Colin, Thank you for submitting this bug and reporting a problem with drag and drop from network shares IN Ubuntu. You made this bug report some time ago and Ubuntu has been updated since then.
Could you confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the ticket? If it is still a problem, are you still interested in finding a solution to this bug? If you are, could you let us know and, run the following (only once): apport-collect 1715883 and upload the updated logs and and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue. Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu better. G -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1715883 Title: Can not drag and drop from network shares to most apps Status in Nautilus: New Status in thunar: Fix Released Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Dropping a file from a network share into most applications (Claws Mail, Chromium, Thunderbird, ...) fails silently. This is because the URIs sent by Nautilus are GFVS URIs with various schemes (smb://, davs://, ...) and most applications doing POSIX I/O can't do anything with them. This is easy to check by dropping a file from a network share into the Terminal. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/1715883/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
