New Folder with Selection freezes, crashes nautilus

[Andreas Mueller]

Ubuntu 16.04.1, Files 3.14.3

When selecting "many" files in Nautilus and selecting "New Folder with Selection" from the context menu, nautilus freezes and then crashes (closes) after a while, with the folder created and some of the files in the folder.

This seems to happen deterministically given enough files. I get a crash with 400 files which are together 6gb.
As this happens on the same file system, this should be an instantaneous operation: "mkdir X", "mv ... X".

[Andreas Mueller (t3kcit)]

Seems related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1133477
Is there any progress on this? The bug seems 3 years old and looks pretty bad.
Any way I can help?

[Uli Franke (cls-5)]

Affects me as well. Mine crashes pretty often even with only a couple of files, i.e. five or even two. Pretty annoying.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a backtrace following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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