I have since positivily confirmed that the issue was dropbox. I uninstalled the application and the problem went away. I had started to roll the package out and found it to not work over a samba drives on the network using nautilus mounted drives.
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => Confirmed -- nautilus on drag n drop to network drive kills desktop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/452679 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs