I registered this bug so long ago that I gave up on it and forgot about it.
This may help a little - on a fresh clean install, before you ever open Nautilus, go into dconf-editor and go to org/gnome/desktop/thumbnailers and tick the box for Disable All. Nautilus will still crash when copying multiple files but at least it now opens and browses folders a bit quicker. With thumbnailers enabled a folder with 2000 movies will take approximately 20 minutes to open. Try to access a 4 Tb drive full of movies with thumbnailers enabled and you get the same crash as copying multiple files. Gnome Commander really is what you need. It's old and clunky to operate but it's fast and it doesn't crash. Copied 4 Tb in less than 8 hours. Took only a few minutes to recursively change ownership and permissions on the whole 4 Tb, I've given up on Nautilus except as a quick easy access when I want to play a movie, it's completely useless for anything else. Take a look at the main bugs list page, the entire first page is Nautilus. This is my first experience with Ubuntu - I think they could learn a few things by taking a good look at some of the other Linux distro's out there. The other distros are all having the same problems with Nautilus but at least they respond to bug reports and try to offer fixes or work arounds. Cheers, Andrew. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1329974 Title: nautilus freezes during copy/paste Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Problem happens when copying multiple files to another drive. Every time copying stops after about 30 mb. Nautilus doesn't crash, it just stops. No more harddrive activity, no lights, noone home. Copying a single 1.6 Gb file gave the same problem although it did copy the whole 1.6 Gb it froze at the very end. Only option is Force Quit. Nautilus also falls over trying to change file permissions, this does cause crash with no error message. Has only been doing this since system updates a few days ago. Using Gnome-commander all operations work perfectly. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: nautilus 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-29.53-generic 3.13.11.2 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-29-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Sat Jun 14 08:11:42 2014 GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'use-tree-view' b'true' b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'date_modified', 'date_accessed', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'mime_type', 'where']" InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-05 (39 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140416.2) SourcePackage: nautilus UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1329974/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
