Comment 32 for bug 305546

This problem arose today with Nautilus on the 9.04 version.
It appears to have been caused by an inkscape svg file linked to several imbedded bitmaps.
It started when I moved the images into a new subdirectory, separating them from the svg file.
Moving all the files back together in original directory and removing the introduced subdirectory corrected the problem.

Inkscape appears to automatically create a link between an image that is copied into one of its vector files and the vector file (unlike Adobe Illustrator which only links the two if the image is "placed" into a vector file).

Why Nautilus hangs because of this is beyond me.