I have tested this behavior under GNOME nautilus 3.8.1. This problems seems to be with the invalid URI's passed by nautilus to its bulk-rename-tool, registered in '/org/gnome/nautilus/preferences/bulk-rename-tool'.
For example, for the selected files "/home/thura/Development/nautilus-renamer/untitled/untitled 2/testfile*", nautilus passed the following uris as arguments.
I have tested this behavior under GNOME nautilus 3.8.1. This problems seems to be with the invalid URI's passed by nautilus to its bulk-rename-tool, registered in '/org/gnome/ nautilus/ preferences/ bulk-rename- tool'.
For example, for the selected files "/home/ thura/Developme nt/nautilus- renamer/ untitled/ untitled 2/testfile*", nautilus passed the following uris as arguments.
file:// /home/thura/ Development/ nautilus- renamer/ untitled/ untitled02/ testfile21 /home/thura/ Development/ nautilus- renamer/ untitled/ untitled02/ testfile22 /home/thura/ Development/ nautilus- renamer/ untitled/ untitled02/ testfile23 /home/thura/ Development/ nautilus- renamer/ untitled/ untitled02/ testfile24
file://
file://
file://
So, this is a nautilus bug. Please, report in nautilus instead.