How can I drag and drop a file (not just its path) from VS Code Explorer View to system file explorer / other applications?

Question

Since I've been using Ubuntu and I'm working with VS Code a lot and I need to drag and drop files from nautilus to VS Code and vise versa

the problem its only working from nautilus to VS Code and when i try from VS Code to Nautulis it copies the path not the file I tried to open VS Code with sudo still doesn't work.

I'm on Ubuntu 22 LTS

Answer 1

I believe this is a subset of the pending set of feature requests in Better drag and drop / clipboard integration of files across applications #164, which includes Support for native file transfer / clipboard support #2853. I suggest that you give those issue ticket a thumbs up to show support for it, and subscribe to it to get notified about discussion and progress. Please avoid making noisy comments like "+1" / "bump".

If on the other hand you are interested in dragging the URI and not the file contents but are getting an error from the destination application, you might be interested in Cannot drag/drop file from VS Code to other apps due to invalid data object #91132.