Comment 91 for bug 1512120

My OS is Ubuntu 16.04, with XFCE version 4.12.1 installed, Thunar version 1.6.10, which is the latest available in the repositories. All updates are installed. I'm experiencing this issue multiple times a day.

sudo apt-get install thunar
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
thunar is already the newest version (1.6.10-2ubuntu1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

If it's fixed in 1.6.11 on Xubuntu 16.04, the patch should be present on ALL versions of Ubuntu.

I experience this bug at least 5-10 times per day, sometimes a lot more when working on projects with lots of files that have similar names. It does happen often enough just renaming other files, like maybe a 1 in 20 chance, but I have yet to loose data as it has successfully renamed all of them. It crashes so much when working on said projects though, that I'v actually went to using the terminal using "for i in filename*" loops wiht various regex matches and the cut command to mass rename files instead of Thunar.

I will be building Thunar from the latest source and overwriting the system version to see if that fixes it, as it appears regular Ubuntu dosen't have the latest version of Thunar in the repos. Someone please get this fixed asap.