Why do the "Copy to" and "Move to" context menus in Nautilus only offer "Home" and "Desktop" as options?

Solution 1:

11.10 onwards

Maybe this might work:

Nautilus scripts the bullets state, amongst others:

• Move To... #selected files/folders to ... whereever you want. the script will check if you have write-permissions and if the file already exists
• Copy To...

Pick the 2 scripts from the download link and just install those just to see if it works. It is fairly old but the way Nautilus works had not changed for as far as I know.

Solution 2:

10.04 to 11.04

You could also try editing the file /usr/share/nautilus/ui/nautilus-directory-view-ui.xml which has the entries for the Move To menu. Note there are two copies of the Move To menu in that file and I think you would have to edit both.