I have this problem too, it's been there for a couple of months I think. It's random and intermittent, and fixed by restarting nautilus, which of course is annoying when lots of tabs have been set up.
-- 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/1322925 Title: Copy, paste stops working randomly in Ubuntu 14.04 nautilus Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The title says it. Since upgrade to 14.04, copy / cut / paste of files among various folders I have write rights on does not work most of the times. Using the terminal to copy / move does work normally. nautilus: Installed: 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.1 Candidate: 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.1 Version table: *** 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.1 0 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu8 0 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1322925/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp