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Nautilus (also known as GNOME Files) is the default file manager for Ubuntu and as such is used to manage files and folders. Nautilus is called "Files" by default on Ubuntu.

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Ubuntu Nautilus can't see SMB file share

On my "Other locations" section, i used to be able to see my NAS server, however i had trouble with connecting to it. In the middle of poking around settings i must have messed something up ...
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Can't open file window

I have this problem where sometimes when I click on the Files icon it shows a working icon but never opens a window. Once this starts happening it won't work unless I reboot the PC. From journalctl I ...
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Nautilus problems after changing language

I changed ubuntu system wide language from English to Japanese. Here are the steps as they happened: I changed system wide language from English to Japanese via Settings I got a popup dialogue asking ...
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Cannot access local server via Nautilus or Filezilla, but I can access it via Plex

I have an ubuntu 22.04 LTS server connected via ethernet to my wireless router, the device ip is 192.168.50.175, I can ping it from terminal and it shows up in the router map. When I remote into Plex ...
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Windows Shares in Nautilus

How would I get a windows share to automatically show as a server in the Nautilus other locations? I can enter the server address as smb://192.168.1.178/ or smb://hostname.local/ The other linux ...
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How to enter a file path directly in the GNOME Files

I can not find the button for entering a file path in the "Files" file manager (GNOME Files). The current program menu does only offer the options "New Window" and "Quit",...
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Why does "nautilus"(Gnome FIles) gives me so smaller size of directory, compared with "du"?

I have uncompressed a folder and if I right click in the folder and click properties, I get from nautilus (Gnome Files) Gnome Files output: but instead if I do: $ du -sh * 292M branches 236M ...
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Nautilus not working properly , what possibly can be the problem?

Whenever I restart my laptop ( Ubuntu 22.04 ) , The file system ( Nautilus ) stops working. It says:- Failed to register: Timeout was reached I have a temporary solution as :- killall nautilus ...
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Cannot copy files to an Android phone via MTP due to "operation not supported"

I'm trying to copy some music files from a file server to the internal memory card of my Samsung phone. When I plug the phone in I can access the memory card via MTP in Nautilus just fine. However, ...
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QT apps do not respect file-chooser bookmarks

background In ubuntu files app (Nautilus), a user can create bookmarks to folders in the left pane: most apps respect these bookmarks; I assume this is just by virtue of them using a ~ system file-...
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"Error Mounting dev/sda at /media/fjdpaco/USB Stick:Unkown error when mounting dev/sda" [duplicate]

I have an Acer Aspire3 laptop, and I am trying to open up a Memorex 8GB USB stick from the Files application in Ubuntu. I Given that I have important data I don't want to accidentally destroy I don't ...
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Nautilus CLI is Extremely Slow for SSHFS Mounted Paths, but the GUI is Fast

I do most of my navigation in the terminal, however in certain circumstances it is nice to open a directory in a GUI. On Ubuntu Linux the default file browser is nautilius. My workflow is typically: ...
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nautilus: error while loading shared libraries: libtracker-data.so: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory

First, I cannot open my file and recycle bin icon, when I click on it, it just loads and then two seconds later there's no response. I tried to run nautilus in the terminal. It then prompts with the ...
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After booting I have many letters missing in Ubuntu, especially the file manager, the folders and login page

After booting today, the letters are mostly not appearing. This affects among others the file manager, taskline and related menus, and the login-page. Folders are lacking their names or the names are ...
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How to add a default bookmark (quick folder access) to all users?

I have many users on my machine; I would like them to have in the bookmarks tab of the Nautilus a link to a specific folder e.g. /home/shared-folder. Is there a way I can change the default bookmarks (...
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How to disable the Nautilus dynamic menu when right clicking on the dock icon? (22.04 and above)

When right-clicking on the Nautilus Files dock icon, it gives a different menu based on if you have a Files window open or not (shown by the image below): I would like to have customized right-click ...
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How can I adjust the column width and make it default? With dconf-editor (nautilus) I can adjust which columns, but the width?

After one day of searching how I can adjust my default column width? See the below details and what I already tried during my troubleshooting. gnome/nautilus installed via dconf-editor I can adjust ...
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Is it possible to add a column to Nautlius Preferences dialog ? Specifically, one that indicates the cardinal number of that file in the folder

I am using Ubuntu 16.04. My question is basically this. In the Nautilus preferences, is it possible to add a column that shows the ascending cardinal number that corresponds to a file in a given ...
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Why do MP3 thumbnails take so long to regenerate?

I'm on 22.04 with Cinnamon but I have noticed this for a long time indeed with 20.04 and 18.04. When I open Files (Nautilus) and navigate to a directory that contains MP3 files, the thumbnails take ...
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Does nautilus encrypt files on BitLocker encrypted drive?

I have an Ubuntu 23.10/Windows 11 dual-boot setup with one of my SSDs and an HDD, both encrypted using BitLocker's New Encryption Mode (XTS-AES). And I read that Linux systems natively don't have ...
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Too many levels of symbolic links - moving a Windows installation

I have an NTFS drive containing a bootable Windows 10 drive C installation. In Ubuntu 22.04, I am using Files (is it still Nautilus?) to move that installation to another NTFS drive. Within that ...
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Where is the Views option that allows me to arrange/sort files in Files (Nautilus)?

I am on a fresh install of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. I am trying to set the way files are arranged/sorted in a folder. Everywhere I search for how to arrange files in folders, gives me the same answer as the ...
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Nautilus bookmarks to Google Drive not maintained on restart

New user here with Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS. I happily discovered that Nautilus allows me to browse my Google Drive contents, and was even happier when I found out how to bookmark my most-often used sub-...
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How to include *type* by default when I open nautilus

I often want to sort the elements in a folder by type. Yet, every time I first have to go and include type as column, and then sort by type. The result is tedious. I tried going to the preference menu ...
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Nautilus does not persist option "sort folders before files"

every time I restart my machine I have to re-enable the Nautilus option "sort folders before files" Is there a way to make it persistent? Thanks
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Can't access nautilus in xrdp client

When I am on my pc connected to server, I can't open nautilus. When I execute sudo nautilus it types authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified
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How to find what icon file nautilus is choosing to display?

I'm trying to set an icon association for a mime-type, but Nautilus is displaying a blank icon. How can I find which icon file Nautilus is choosing to display (the path to this blank icon)? Relevant ...
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Left panel (sidebar / tree view) missing in open file dialog

On my Ubuntu 22.04 in "open file" dialogs somehow the left panel for the tree view of the system is missing and I cannot get it back. The problem exists for all dialogs of all programs (...
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Prevent backspace from moving up the directory tree in nautilus

Whenever I press backspace in nautilus, it seems to move up the directory tree. This is really annoying, especially when I am using the search feature and hold backspace to delete whatever I entered ...
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Nautilus: Automatically mount a bitlocked drived upon login

In Nautilus, when I click on "Other locations" then "Encrypted Drive", it gets unlocked and appears as a mounted drive in the list. I would like that to be done automatically when ...
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Bug before install okular snap

I'm going mad trying to fix this bug in Ubuntu 23.10. This happens after i installed okular snap. I tried whit sudo chown -R $USER: $HOME. I can't open the folder in the HOME directory and for some ...
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Data loss after running Bash script creating dirs and moving files

For several instances now, I experienced some very weird behavior, where part of the directories and the files in a directory got deleted after running a script which creates new directories within ...
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Customize ".config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css" file based on individual applications

Is it possible either to have different gtk.css files to be loaded when different applications launches (e.g. Gedit, Gnome-terminal, Nautilus, etc.), or have specific tags in the file .config/gtk-3.0/...
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Files (Nautilus): text files on the remote server appear as `application/octet-stream` and cannot be opened by the default text editor

Lately, text files on the remote server appear as application/octet-stream and cannot be opened by the default text editor (Geany): I've tried choosing not only Geany, but also other text editors (...
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Unable to open anything other than terminal in Ubuntu 20.04

I cannot open any directory such as Home in Ubuntu. I found the answer here and tried it. I received errors as follows In the terminal there is only one $ sign. No username is there. That was weird ...
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Issue with accessing a partition of my ssd

Hi I'm very new to Linux. This might be some dumb thing that ive done or some stupid mistake I'm not sure. I've dual booted Windows and Ubuntu by making a partition of my SSD of 1 TB. It is split into ...
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Nautilus acting weird in 23.10

In Nautilus, whenever I scroll up or down to view all the files, it skips and jumps all over the place making it almost impossible to find files. This started with 23.04 and I was hoping the devs ...
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Losing files on external BitLocker encrypted drive

I am using Ubuntu 22.04 and have an external encrypted with BitLocker HDD which I use to store sensitive data such as personal and family photos and videos. Today, as usual, I decided to move some ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Nautilus Shows Locked sed* files that do not exist

After running a couple of thousand sed commands to make global file changes to my web site, specifically ensuring that every .html file is a valid HTML5 document, Nautilus shows that the folders that ...
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How to prevent Nautilus from automatically extracting ZIP files on open

Upgrading from 22.04 to 23.10 I noticed that now in nautilus when I double click on a zip file it will automatically extract it in the current folder. This is really bad when I can have a multiple-GB ...
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Unable to access windows network share after upgrade from 20.04 to 22.04

It was working perfectly, now after upgrade I keep getting in syslog Oct 23 11:56:04 acop gvfsd[6776]: Kerberos auth with 'acop@WORKGROUP' to access '192.168.1.2' not possible I had to install and ...
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Nautilus file explorer to allow for NTFS parition mount

In older version of Ubuntu 18.04 if I recall you could see unmounted drive in nautilus side bar. But now since I only see my home folder and other locations which is empty. Is there a way to restore ...
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File Manager not working

When using file manage and clicking on any folder or drive, a window opens and a spinning circle never stops to show the files. How to repair this ?
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How do I force Nautilus to log out of a shared drive (samba) so I can log in as a different user?

The password isn't stored in my keyring and unmounting the network drive from my desktop doesn't work. It looks like this question has been asked for previous Ubuntu versions but none of the ...
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Gnome's "scale" feature breaks UI of Settings and Nautilus

Ubuntu 20.04. When I set the scaling factor to 125% (or any others), in Settings the "Network" icon on the sidebar becomes huge: And the sidebar icons of the file manager (Nautilus) do not ...
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Disk Image Mounter from Nautilus (Files) Context Menu Fails to Mount ISO

Ubuntu 20.04 attempting to mount ISO file using Disk Image Mounter from Nautilus (Files) Context Menu fails to mount ISO with the following message - However going mount somefile.iso /mnt results in ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 - Nautilus does not open folders with a double click

For a few weeks now, Nautilus has not been working as it should. When I open the personal folder on the desktop and then want to open other folders, a double click is not enough, I have to press the ...
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The status bar of Ubuntu is abnormal after reinstalling gnome according to ChatGPT prompt

The command ChatGPT gave me is as follows: sudo apt-get purge gnome-shell gnome-session gnome-settings-daemon gnome-control-center gnome-terminal nautilus gnome-tweak-tool sudo apt-get autoremove ...
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Unable to modify files in root even after booting it up as admin

I'm trying to copy+paste a plugin for OBS under /snap/obs-studio/1284/usr/lib. It's located in root. The paste option is grayed out doing: sudo su nautilus leads to me opening it as admin:///snap/obs-...
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Does nautilus block hotkeys?

I just installed Ubuntu LTS 22.04. I have guake installed and use the F12 hotkey for opening the Guake window. This usually works fine, except for if the active window is Files (presumably Nautilus, ...
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