Feature: Support drag and drop onto file shortcuts

[piknockyou]

Description

Files app currently doesn't support drag and drop operations onto file shortcuts (.lnk files), while this works in Windows File Explorer. Users cannot drag files onto shortcuts to script files (.bat, .ps1, .py, etc.).

Current behavior

✅ Works: Drag and drop onto actual script files (.bat, .ps1, .py)
❌ Missing: Drag and drop onto shortcuts to any of these files

Expected behavior

Dragging a file onto a shortcut should pass the file as a parameter to the target script, same as File Explorer.

Requirements / Use cases

This functionality works correctly in Windows File Explorer for all script shortcut types. Would greatly improve workflow efficiency for users who organize scripts using shortcuts.

• Script organization: Keep commonly-used scripts in a central repository while having shortcuts locally for easy access
• Environment-specific execution: Batch files that configure environments before calling PowerShell scripts, with shortcuts placed near the scripts they invoke
• Workflow automation: Drop files onto script shortcuts to trigger automated processing without navigating to script locations
• Project-specific tools: Shortcuts to universal scripts placed within individual project folders

Files Version

4.0.0.0

Windows Version

10.0.26100.5074

[Josh65-2201]

Thanks for the feedback, Files does support this, please open a bug report. Also don't edit or add categories to the template, it's there for a reason.

[yaira2]

As per Josh, this is already supported in Files. We'd like to learn more about why it's not working in your case, but to properly assist, we ask that you open a new issue using the bug report template as that puts us in a better position to help 🙂