It's going to take a while for this to get fixed, but the attached GNOME bug is one of many that complain about this behaviour.
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #317569 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317569 ** Also affects: nautilus (upstream) via http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317569 Severity: Unknown Priority: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- When a Nautilus instance blocks, all other instances also get blocked https://launchpad.net/bugs/40740 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
