All right, this is due to the destination disk being formatted as FAT32 (factory default) which doesn't allow files larger than 4GB. nautilus should detect this case and warn me before it starts copying any files (if there are multiple ones) instead of crashing.
-- Nautilus crashed while copying files https://launchpad.net/bugs/72261 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
