What steps does it take to reproduce the issue? Publish a dataset with files, try to use the kebob menu to restrict the file. The display looks like

and clicking the vertical ... kebab (note there's no down arrow after it) gives:

If I edit some metadata so that a draft version exists, the menus change to have a carat after them:

and it works as normal.
Which version of Dataverse are you using?
develop branch - doesn't seem to occur on 5.10.1