Nautilus utterly unreliable with drag & drop

Bug #1835649 reported by Franck
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Bug Description

When using nautilus to drag & drop files between folders, it quickly becomes unresponsive and unreliable.

Giving a constant pattern to reproduce is hard, but playing a few tens of seconds with files and folders always triggers the weird behaviour.
This happens in a single nautilus window, or when using several (2) nautilus windows.
Sometimes, I get an error message saying my file does not exists anymore.

The problem is with D&D, as Using Ctrl+X / Ctrl+V always works.
Notice I'm using a Wayland session, it might be related...

Not sure how to collect useful informations to debug this, advices are welcome...

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.32.1-0ubuntu0.19.04.0
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-20.21-generic 5.0.8
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-20-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu27
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Sun Jul 7 12:39:47 2019
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
usr_lib_nautilus:

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Franck (alci) wrote :
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Franck (alci) wrote :

I've bben looking for similar issues on the net.
This one is unresolved but report https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229018
a comment describes what I see quite well regarding the error message:

"- when a drop fails in Nautilus and I use cut/paste to move a file or folder, I then get a "can't access [source folder]" dialog box a long time later (like 1 or 2 minutes, which is an eternity in UX terms) as if the mouse-based drag-and-drop got stuck all that time."

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