Comment 0 for bug 1807759

after upgrading to 16.04 from 14.04, I found that all file open dialog lost the address bar (location entry). The only thing to navigate between folders is the breadcrumb bar. Every path change requires a dozen of clicking, while before I could just paste the path and done. This is a big inconvenience.

after googling, I found tones of reports to restore the location entry using the below command

gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences always-use-location-entry true
 or
dconf write /org/gnome/nautilus/preferences/always-use-location-entry true

however, this fails to work on my system, I got

fangq@taote:~$ gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences always-use-location-entry true

(process:11686): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: GDBus.Error:org.gtk.GDBus.UnmappedGError.Quark._g_2dfile_2derror_2dquark.Code4: Failed to rename file '/home/users/fangq/.config/dconf/user.SO58SZ' to '/home/users/fangq/.config/dconf/user': g_rename() failed: No such file or directory

I would like to get a workaround to revert to the previous setting (either location entry is displayed by default, or can be re-enabled by clicking a button on the dialog). Also, I would suggest the developers to consider adding this feature back. For people who use Linux a lot, clicking is just not fast enough!