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Aquarius Power
Asked: 2014-05-31 16:32:06 +0800 CST

Nautilus copy/paste suddenly stop working, how to workaround? qdbus?

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I use ubuntu 14.04. As copy/paste for no reason suddenly fails, since nautilus on ubuntu 12.10, I am looking for a workaround.

The workaround can be any trick you came by. I have several (10+) tabs opened and there is NO WAY to close and open nautilus with all them back opened? if there is, this would be a workaround! I, at least, could find no way even with qdbus (may be I dont know how to use it very well).

In case you know what causes this problem, I would like to know too, but not required.

I was thinking, if I could collect all tab locations thru, may be, qdbus, I could create a script to re-open them on a new nautilus window.

PS.: you can help too by following @isync suggestion at comments below!

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6 Answers

  1. This a Nautilus bug, you can check it here.

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  2. A workaround i found is to restart nautilus

    nautilus -q

    Then open Files and now copy/paste should work.

    I have checked this in Ubuntu 14.04 and it's working.

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  3. You shouldn't try a "workaround" if you would have to mess with config files. This is clearly a bug and it has been filed already.

    Can you copy files if you drag them with the mouse while holding CTRL (a little "+" should appear beside the icon of the file you are dragging)?

    Also try to start nautilus from a terminal (by writing nautilus) to see if it writes any error messages. Also try starting nautilus with sudo from a terminal: sudo nautilus and try if it works then (can be a permission issue if it does). However, NEVER use sudo nautilus for your regular work, even if it works as it is a security risk.

    As a last resort because you will have to wait for the bug to be fixed you can try another file manager, e.g. Nemo which is a fork of Nautilus or Thunar.

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  4. I'm using the file manger Nemo on Ubuntu 14.04 and got the same problem. Copy, Cut and Paste suddenly stopped working.

    After closing all file manager windows and reopen them it worked again.

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  5. An interesting workaround can be found here.

    It basically makes symlinks to nautilus tabs folders at a /tmp,
    restarts nautilus at that backup folder,
    select all folders symlinks,
    and open them all as tabs with "ctrl+shift+t".

    #the list of open tabs least current one (dup it prior):  
qdbus org.gnome.Nautilus /org/freedesktop/FileManager1 org.freedesktop.FileManager1.OpenLocations
# use it to create a folder with symlinks pointing to them

# after opening nautilus on that folder directly
# select all of the symlinks and open'em on new tabs
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  6. I have the same problem. My solution was to:

    1. Launch Nautilus from a command prompt and, for me, it work fine;
    2. Close Nautilus;
    3. Open Nautilus normally from the Desktop, and this now works fine.
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