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Feedback Support drag and drop from zip archive to import assets

Discussion in 'Editor Workflows' started by Xarbrough, Nov 29, 2020.

  1. Xarbrough

    Xarbrough

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    A small thing that keeps bugging me is, that Unity doesn't allow me to import an external asset by dragging and dropping it from a compressed archive (zip, rar). If I attempt to do so, a popup says "Copying file failed. The system cannot find the file specified."

    I then have to open the project location in the Windows Explorer and can drag and drop my assets from the archive directly into the explorer window and then refresh in Unity to import them, but that's multiple steps involved.
     
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  2. Duusty

    Duusty

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    Also happens to me quite often :>

    Also that the behavior of asset drag&drop functionality is different in casee youre dragging an asset from one unity3d project window to another (different projects), or if you drag and drop it from the explorer.

    In one case it gets moved in the other copied
     
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