Cannot drag files to Time Capsule

Trying to drag files from my Documents map to my Time Capsule map but do not succeed. File Sharing in the Disks section of Airport Utility is tagged to enable file sharing with Time Capsule password. When dragging and dropping, no password is requested, no error message is produced, not is any sound made. Somebody in another discussion suggested to double click on the Time Capsule icon in the left column, which would produce maps (subdirectories) in the same column, after which files could be dragged to these maps, however when double clicking on the Time Capsule icon, maps only show up in the right column of Finder. Please help.

So it seems I can no longer drag and drop like I used to, but copy and paste seems to do the trick. So, in a way, problem solved.

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