Comment 16 for bug 13428

I've been looking at this quite a bit recently. Unfortunately, the upstream
maintainer is not hugely responsive until you can prove that a bug exists. Even
the Red Hat desktop team are not getting traction from him on this one. ;-)

Try this: killall nautilus gam_server, then start doing operations in your
Desktop folder or any other folder. Everything should work as expected. At some
stage, during normal usage, an event happens that stops gamin seeing or
communicating changes (not sure which). The bugs are filed about the desktop,
because that's where we see most file change notification take place.