Am I losing it? The Direct Selection Tool and Path Selection Tool used to be able to move elements?

If you activate all of its points, you can move a workpath or shape layer with both Path and Direct Selection tools.  Is that what Dave and Conrad have already said?

I agree that I don’t think anything has changed in this area for a while. The demo below shows my understanding of it.

Path Selection tool:

You can move a shape if you first select it in the Layers panel.

Direct Selection tool:

Because this tool is for editing points and segments, clicking with it doesn’t select a whole path like the Path Selection tool does.

That’s why it can’t select or move by clicking and dragging on the canvas.

That’s also why it doesn’t help to select the shape in the Layers panel or Paths panel.

For the Direct Selection tool, what does work is the last thing I do in the demo: When the shape is selected in the Paths panel, Option-click any point or segment, which selects the entire path. When the entire path is selected, dragging any point or segment moves the whole path. (Do not keep Option held down when starting the drag itself, because that copies the path. Option-click the path to select all points, then release the mouse button, then start the drag.)

You can use those tools to move path based elements, such as paths or shapes. But raster based elements require the move tool.

Dave