Duplicate Nautilus in dashboard after launch

[IngPaolo]

When I start nautilus form dashboard another icon appears at dashboard end, instead of highlighting the one in first position.
This is boring.
And every time I click on first position nautilus icon (or press SUPER+1) it always open a new window and icon on dashboard

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.18.4.is.3.14.3-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-22.40-generic 4.4.8
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-22-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sat May 21 00:06:16 2016
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.preferences' b'default-folder-viewer' b"'list-view'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'855x550+58+30'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'date_modified', 'date_accessed', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'mime_type', 'where']"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-08-31 (263 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Beta i386 (20150805)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-05-14 (6 days ago)

[EvgenijM86 (evgenij1)]

I can confirm this on my system. I have installed ubuntu 16.04 by updating 14.04.

[EvgenijM86 (evgenij1)]

I have fixed this problem by removing ~/.config/nautilus directory and doing:

sudo apt-get install nautilus --purge --reinstall

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey)]

I just right clicked the Nautilus icon in the launcher and removed it. Then re-launch nautilus from the dash, and move the icon up the list. Now I only get one icon.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue was probably due to the rename of the .desktop, that's gone now and configs are migrated which should deprecate the issue

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Closing as per comment #6