Each app/tool has its own design/limit. As you try to cut/paste a huge files number or folder(s) with lot of files, its not hard to understand that you need huge ram too: at least twice the whole weight of the moved files. System Monitor can help you seeing that.
A strong and stable tool like 'cp' is better designed to do your needs. http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man1/cp.1.html but as it is an upstream decision to set nautilus handling special cases as yours, then report it on gnome bugzilla. Ubuntu is not concerned by such a requested feature . ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1574598 Title: Nautilus can't move files (at least images) in a stable way To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1574598/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
