Comment 5 for bug 271771

This bug hit me pretty badly tonight when I tried to delete around 250 files from my ipod and immediately copy another 350 files onto it when the filesystem had been inadvertently mounted as root instead of my user.

As far as I can tell, rhythmbox tried to pop up a "permission denied" dialog for each and every file, which caused metacity to freak out and spin at 100% for over five minutes.

Needless to say, the desktop was totally unresponsive for that time. Even after metacity settled down, rhythmbox was totally unusable and the process had to be killed.