I just noticed that if you right click on the nautilus launcher icon
during a copy operation, 2 new actions in the quicklist will show up:
show copy dialog and cancel all in-progress actions. Not too sure
when this was implemented, but since this is an effective solution to
the problem, I've
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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** Description changed:
- In 12.10 and before, when you copy files in Nautilus, a window title
+ In 12.10 and before, when you copy files in Nautilus, a window titled
File Operations will open to show you the progress, and to offer a
button to stop the operation. You could close this window
