I'm the only user so cannot comment on the "Guest Session" question as none are set up. Some "shortcuts" do not exhibit this problem. The "Home" icon, for example, can be moved around freely. From the error message I described it appears the operation is trying to copy root (/). I have another "machine" that has not been upgraded from 13.04 to 13.10 that doesn't have this problem. It, however, has nautilus version 3.6.3 instead of version 3.8.2 that was installed with the 13.10 upgrade on this computer.
-- 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/1245214 Title: Cannot manually arrange (drag and drop) url desktop launchers after upgrade from ubuntu 13.04 to 13.10 Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: I cannot manually arrange (drag and drop) url desktop launchers after upgrade from ubuntu 13.04 to 13.10. I get error message (Error while copying "/") with details (Error opening file "/": is a directory). Keep aligned is turned off. This only happens when trying to reposition url related launchers. Some of the launchers were created by using Firefox "Create Deskcut" and some with the older Nautilus "Create-Launcher" script. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1245214/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

