Can't drag files and folders to Unity editor asset panel

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Hi,
I’m trying to drag files to Unity’s project panel from my desktop and Unity doesn’t accept them.
It gets grayed out.

  • I tried running the Unity Hub and editor with administrator privileges.
  • I tried restarting the Unity editor
  • I tried updating the Unity Hub and editor

I can’t seem to find a solution.
Googling it gives nothing, all I get is an explanation on how to drag items from the assets to the hierarchy.

I have a screen recording of the issue:
https://www.screencast.com/t/nP9laPgHAC

Do you guys have a solution to this?

Thank you

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Open the project folder itself, drag it in using your OS finder / explorer mechanism.

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Hi, Kurt
Thank you for helping me out.
I was so deeply focused on trying to troubleshoot the dragging bug that I haven’t considered dragging files to the project folder itself.

It worked for me:)

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Not sure it’s a dragging bug. If you have search going on in the project window, it won’t let you drag. If you’re looking in Packages, it won’t work either. It also makes copies when you drag in, which I rarely want, so I almost never use it.

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Hi, I can confirm that after I have upgraded Unity onto version Unity 2022.3.4f1 LTS or Unity Hub 3.5 (don’t know which one has made a difference) this problem happen to me as well. I can’t drag and drop files (folders) into my Assets folder directly from Explorer or desktop. Can someone from Unity look at this, please? Thank you. Kind regards, Tomaz

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If you are using microsoft windows sometimes onedrive will mark your project as read-only so you will need to go to powershell and navigate to the path of your project and paste this

Get-ChildItem -Recurse -File | ForEach-Object { $_.Attributes = $_.Attributes -band (-bnot [System.IO.FileAttributes]::ReadOnly) }

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Hi, I’m using Unity 2022.3.62f1 at the moment and this situation don’t occur anymore. I can now drag files directly from Explorer into Asset folder inside Unity. Kind regards, Tomaz

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having the same issue (Unity 6.1.). Not only in google drive, but sometimes also in just the system sdd.

Not using google drive is not an option.

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Google drive is not supported. Be careful.