I've had a similar problem, I copied one file to a memory card using nautilus, copying another one with a similar file cause nautilus to starting using 100% CPU and increasing memory usage. Killing the nautilus window and forcibly quiting stopped the runaway process. However trying to open the root directory of the memory card caused nautilus to lock up again. I deleted the partially written file on the command line with rm.
I could copy both files to the memory card using cp on the command line with no issues, but nautilus still locked up when trying to view the memory card. I moved the files to a sub-directory and nautilus was now ok in the root of the memory card and the subdirectory with the files in. I could then move the files back to root of the memory card in nautilus and had no more problems. I was wondering if the problem might be when creating (not moving) files on a FAT32 file system. Since I assume that the filename will have a 8.3 character filename for dos and the full filename. Now when I create a second file with a similar filename which has the same initial characters it maybe causes an overlap in the 8.3 filename bit and the crash. Filename I was copying were: World_Rally_Greatest_Cars_dvd.mpg.avi World_Rally_Greatest_Drivers_dvd.mpg.avi Note the first 21 characters are the same. This might only be a problem in the root of a FAT32/VFAT filesystem, since I seem to remember things are slightly different in the root and subdirectories of FAT filesystems. -- opening USB ext hdd causes nautilus to freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/226746 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
