Drag into folder

DeskDrawer glossaryUpdated 7 August 2026

Everywhere else in DeskDrawer, dragging changes Board membership only. This gesture is the exception, and it is the exception because the real desktop behaves the same way: drop a file on a folder and it goes in the folder.

Safeguards#

  • The target folder highlights while you drag over it, so you can always tell whether you are about to reorder icons or drop a file inside something.
  • Dragging across drives copies instead of moving, matching Explorer, so a file is never silently removed from a USB stick or a network share.
  • A file only leaves its board once the move has actually completed. A cancelled or failed move leaves everything as it was.

Folder shortcuts are valid targets too, not only real folders.

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