Given how immediately familiar Files felt when coming from Finder, I was surprised to see a drag-drop of a folder to the sidebar not resulting in the creation of a bookmark.
Did I miss something obvious here or are bookmarks simply not supported?
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Can you please tell which version of elementary OS are you using? I just did create a bookmark on my elementary OS Juno. – Hasan♦ Apr 19 '19 at 18:19
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And if you can't bookmark a folder by drag-and-drop, please go to the folder you want to bookmark and press Ctrl+D. Please let know what you find. – Hasan♦ Apr 19 '19 at 18:42
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Thank you for your follow-up. I am on Juno as well. – AngryAnt Apr 21 '19 at 6:42
Press right button on any folder you want to bookmark and click on Bookmark, you will see your desired folder in the sidebar in files.
And as Hasan suggested,
Please go to the folder you want to bookmark and press Ctrl+D.
this should work too.
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Thanks - this did indeed work and suddenly I was also able to drag-drop to create sidebar bookmarks and rearrange them. Unfortunately this ability quickly went away again. I have not been able to establish very great stability on this install. – AngryAnt Apr 21 '19 at 6:43
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That is something wrong with mouse/touchpad i guess. But that is another issue. If you face problem with mouse / touchpad create another question unless a question already covers your issue and it has answers. – Hasan♦ Apr 21 '19 at 12:29
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When dragging onto the sidebar make sure you drop between existing bookmarks (drag icon has "copy" emblem - white cross on green) not onto a bookmark (drag icon has "move" emblem - black cross on white - if local bookmark but "copy" emblem if on a different filesystem). The context menu or shortcut key is probably safer. – Jeremy Wootten Apr 21 '19 at 19:21
