I registered this bug so long ago that I gave up on it and forgot about
it.
This may help a little - on a fresh clean install, before you ever open
Nautilus, go into dconf-editor and go to org/gnome/desktop/thumbnailers
and tick the box for Disable All. Nautilus will still crash when
copying mult
Public bug reported:
Problem happens when copying multiple files to another drive.
Every time copying stops after about 30 mb. Nautilus doesn't crash, it
just stops. No more harddrive activity, no lights, noone home.
Copying a single 1.6 Gb file gave the same problem although it did copy
the who
