It's good to hear from others also experiencing this problem. I guess I should clarify my original description to make it clear that Nautilus does not "hang", as in crash, it just seems to be forever trying to generate the thumbnails. Therefore, it would seem impossible to provide a backtrace. (Sorry, I could not find a better idiom to describe the problem.)
The comments made so far confirm my experiences. Every Sunday evening, I go through my Home directory and Downloads directory deleting and (perhaps more importantly) moving new files, in readiness for my weekly rsync to an external backup drive. It is then, that I notice the problem described. I normally have to reboot my laptop to get Nautilus to behave as expected. -- Nautilus "hangs" trying to generate thumbnail previews in folder https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/479679 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
