I also experience this identical behavior on Edgy. I am a new user and actually quite surprised drag-and-drop files has such poor support on an OS everyone says is "ready for the desktop".
And the urgency is marked as low! It is the most basic function of a file manager. I'm sorry but this is totally pathetic. -- nautilus tries to move when dragging and dropping from read-only folders, instead of copying https://launchpad.net/bugs/39482 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
