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All Nautilus windows are unresponsive if another Nautilus window has a dialog box open.

Bug #174074 reported by David Baucum on 2007-12-05

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #173863: Nautilus modal dialogues block all Nautilus windows and desktops. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Nautilus	Invalid	Unknown	gnome-bugs #390121
	nautilus (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Low	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

If a nautilus window has a dialog box open, then all other nautilus windows are unresponsive until that dialog box has been resolved. For example, if copying a file and a dialog box comes up and asks you a question, such as to skip or replace the copying of a file, then all other nautilus windows will not allow you to interact with them until you have answered the dialog box for the nautilus window in question.
The expected behavior is that you can delay answering the question and use any other nautilus window except for the one that displayed the dialog box.

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Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething) wrote on 2008-01-29:

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. I can confirm this running Hardy Alpha.

I opened two Nautilus windows, and attempted to paste a file from the desktop with the same name as a file in Nautilus window 1 into Nautilus window 1. As expected a dialog appears asking if I want to replace the file already in that directory. Nautilus window 2 could be brought into focus, but remained unresponsive until the dialog regarding Nautilus window 1 had been resolved.

Changed in nautilus:
status:	New → Confirmed

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CTenorman (ctenorman) wrote on 2008-03-09:

I can confirm this as well. This can be VERY annoying, please fix.

Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething) on 2008-04-07

Changed in nautilus:
importance:	Undecided → Low

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Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething) wrote on 2008-04-07:

Linked upstream bug.

Changed in nautilus:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2008-04-28

Changed in nautilus:
status:	Unknown → New

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2010-07-22

Changed in nautilus:
status:	New → Invalid

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Bruno Girin (brunogirin) wrote on 2010-07-22:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 173863, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.