Comment 40 for bug 223912

Sorry to re-open - I confirm this bug is still there and agree with Saul D. B. When thumbnails (preview) are enabled, and you then enable viewing of hidden files, Nautilus freezes. It never used to do this, so no idea what has triggered it. I don't think it is connected to any folder type (home folder or otherwise). Disabling thumbnails cures the problem, but it is still a bug.

Interestingly, once the correct behaviour has been established, re-enabling preview again and toggling viewing of hidden files no longer caused a freeze - at least for now. Very difficult to pin this down.

Most definitley a problem with viewing hidden files when preview/thumbnails is on.

Nautilus 2.24.1
8.1 Intrepid
Linux 2.6.27-14-generic
GNOME 2.24.1

 Saul D. B. wrote on 2008-07-16: (permalink)

The same thing happens to me. Whenever I try to open my images folder, it freezes, and in the build/ directory of an scons project, it only does so when hidden files are switched on. I also found that if I create an image with the gimp while the folder I save it in is open, nautilus crashes. (at least in the scons directory)

I think has something to do with thumbnails, since turning them off seems to solve the problem.