Comment 44 for bug 1081842

I've noticed that I can reproduce this (the unresponsive categories, not the inability to filter with the search) by having a bookmark which is a symbolic link to a directory on an unmounted NTFS volume. I am highly unfamiliar with how the menu works, but it looks like it might have trouble with the icon. Commenting out "this.addActor(this.icon)" on line 390 of applet.js (the one currently in the repo build of Cinnamon 1.8) allows it to behave properly, albeit with a little less eye candy.