Comment 2 for bug 378873

* Yes, I've attempted such a transfer several times and each time has always gotten hung up at some point. To my knowledge, I've never had a transfer of such a size complete normally - I must either copy the files in smaller groups, or manually mount the share from the command line in order to transfer everything at once.

* Ultimately I'm not aware of anything special I did to trigger the hang. I just browsed to a Windows network share (this one happens to be hosted on Windows XP, but I will check to see if the same thing occurs on shares hosted by other OS's) via Places->Network and attempted to copy a large amount of data to a local directory. After some time (I've never seen a transfer successfully continue past 45 minutes (or roughly 20GB with our network speed)) the transfer will just hang, not making any progress and impossible to cancel without logging out. Further investigation reveals that the share is no longer mounted in ~/.gvfs.

I've checked other distros to see if this is a generic problem, but not even Debian has had this issue when transferring the same files from the same share, so this appears to be unique to Ubuntu.