After copying a lot of jpgs from folder A to folder B the desktop-image and all folders are no longer visible. After clicking any folder-sign on the panel one folder shortly opens and after 3sec crashes. After all I purged nautilus, reinstalled it, resetted the ownership of all config-files in the home directory nothing improved Folders are gone. Login as a different user or starting gksu nautilus in the terminal all works fine. So what can I do to reactivate the home-users nautilus? Thank you for any help Distrib ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS Release: 14.04 Codename: trusty
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what does ls say in the terminal? are there folders according to ls?– j0hJan 9, 2015 at 1:46
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@Peter I can see the folders in the terminal and in Nautilus of a different user– Helmut KrämerJan 13, 2015 at 13:38
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what config files are you referring to? usually in situations like this, settings/config file are damaged. Changing permissions does not help, deleting them often does. I would try to temporarily rename nautilus settings/config files in ~/.config/nautilus` and see what happens.– Jacob VlijmJan 19, 2015 at 19:00
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Sometimes it takes more time to research a problem then to solve it. I've got 2 dirty tricks up my sleeve to solve it without knowing where the problem came from. If you ever have this problem again, we can still research it then.
If you disagree with this approach, leave a comment below the answer.
Trick 1: It doesn't appear in the guest session, right? So create an additional user, copy (and then delete. do not move) all your files from the "crashed user" to the new user and delete the "crashed user"
Trick 2: Nautilus is causing the problem, right? Install Nemo File Manager. It's how Nautilus used to be a few years ago, before Nautilus suffered from the "simple is better" syndrome... :-( Lots of options, keeps the views you define, built-in terminal, ... Overall a better file manager.
