I have just encountered this error and without rebooting have opened a KDE session and accessed the problem folders without any issues so it lookes like it is related to gnome.
-- nautilus folder not displaying full contents https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/482905 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
