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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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How to copy large number of small files to a NTFS external drive?

I have a large number (15K+) of small files of size 3-4 KB each. What is the fastest method to copy those files to a NTFS drive? I tried Nautilus and cp, but they are really slow.
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Is there some way to decrease folders/icons size in Nautilus 3.18?

In the newest Nautilus 3.18 the smallest folder/icon size is really too big. Is there some way to hack (or something) this program and set a smaller one?
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Open directory with an item selected

What I want to do is, open default file browser(nautilus) with an item selected. i.e From Google chrome > Downloads, if I click show in folder, it should open default file browser with downloaded ...
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Ubuntu-Gnome 15.04: USB 3.0 HDD very slow

Following situation: If I connect my USB 3.0 HDD (WD MyPassport) to the USB 3.0 Interface of my laptop and then try to copy a large file with nautilus the speed only reaches around 10MB/sec. So I ...
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How to add “Refresh” option to right click menu in Ubuntu 15.04

I tried to use below steps to add refresh option in Ubuntu 15.04 but getting error E: Unable to locate package nautilus-refresh. Same steps worked fine in Ubuntu 14.04. Anything I am missing? I am ...
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Is there any way to prevent closing nautilus with multiple tabs?

Just like firefox, when you try to close it, a warning is raised that you need to confirm to close multiple tabs. Is it possible for nautilus?
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Save folder configurations for each folder?

Is there any way to save folder configurations like icon size or to change to list view for each individual folder? By the way I'm using Ubuntu Mate and it comes with Caja but this suppose to be ...
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Nautilus - When I select to open with gEdit, settings aren't saved

A few days ago I decided to activate the option to run scripts in Nautilus by double clicking on it. But I also edit some a lot so whenever I want to edit them, I have to right click them, hover my ...
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Set folder view - per folder preferences [duplicate]

is there a way with Ubuntu 15.04 or less recent versions to set view preferences on a per-folder basis? Something like this folder should be a list, this one should be icons and so on. Thanks!
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Bugs since last update (Ubuntu 15.04 - oct 6 2015): nautilus crashes

I made the last update as usually, but after the reboot, I noticed a bug. Nautilus freezes When I open nautilus, the window just becomes grey and... nothing. When I call it from terminal, I get ...
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nautilus disk properties: gray color

Silly question maybe, but I wonder why for this pen disk, what is the meaning of that gray color in nautilus properties window? Is it dark matter? :) Notice that the legend only shows the blue and ...
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Keyboard shortcut for open terminal Nautilus >= 3.16

How can I set a shortcut for open terminal in current directory for nautilus? I'm using Nautilus 3.16.2 and I already tried this answer but look like it's broken in newer version.
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How do I upgrade Nautilus in Ubuntu 14.04 Unity and Ubuntu based distros?

I am currently running Ubuntu Unity 14.04.x and Zorin OS 9 (14.04.x based distro). Both OSs are running Nautilus 3.10.1. Recently, Nautilus 3.18.1 was released. This new version is not in the ...
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How to restore re-created default user directories to Files quicklist? [duplicate]

I deleted and later re-created the Documents folder in my home directory. It no longer appears in the Files quicklist. You can see in the screen shot below that several bookmarks are present among the ...
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Download subtitles with nautilus

How to add "download subtitles" option (for example with Qnapi app) to nautilus context menu ? In any other file manager ther's no problem with that but in nautilus there's no qnapi option when I want ...
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How to hide the little yellow box which appears when a file in Nautilus is selected?

Does anybody know how to hide the little yellow box which appears when a file in Nautilus is selected? Please see the image below: Image taken from Nautilus show selected file with better precision ...
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How to always show some hidden files in Nautilus?

I know all the files with dot in front of their names are hidden. Nautilus have an option to hide some specific files without dot in their name – by listing their names in .hidden text file, so these ...
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Fix wrong encoding of filenames

strangely the encodings from some music I got from a friend with Windows 7 OS show up with a wrong encoding in nautlius . I already tried it with convmv --notest -r -f windows-1255 -t utf-8 * but ...
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Did a jpeg2000 file corrupt my install?

While running UBUNTU 14.04 I navigated to this web page http://www.fnordware.com/j2k/jp2samples.html and downloaded their linked example jpeg2000 format graphics file http://www.fnordware.com/j2k/...
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Can not install nautilus-gksu in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS [duplicate]

I am trying to install nautilus-gksu in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS by sudo apt-get install nautilus-gksu but I am having the following error. Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree ...
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Nautilus show selected file with better precision

When I select a file in Nautilus down the bottom of the window is a little box telling me the name of the file I have selected and its size. It usually shows something like 6.3 Kb however when I am ...
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RabbitVCS /w Subversion 1.7 on Ubuntu 14.04

I have a trouble with RabbitVCS on Ubuntu 14.04 and SVN 1.7. I compiled Subversion 1.7.10, afterwards installed RabbitVCS via following command: python setup.py install --install-layout=deb Then I ...
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Nautilus strange 'shift' key behaviour when renaming files

There is a really puzzling behaviour in Nautilus regarding my Shift key. Consider the following scenario: I click on any folder in /home and press F2 to rename it. During renaming I can type just ...
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How to install ‘Nautilus’ on VirtualBox and use it with ssh? [duplicate]

I installed Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager on Windows 7 and I was able to run some PHP programs on it. I use Git-Bash with Vagrant to access shell (Ubuntu). I would like to try a simple Java web ...
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how to edit (or delete) sources list in commandline (no text editor, cannot install any new packages on limeted install) [duplicate]

I am running lubuntu (actually kodibuntu) as my server. whilst attempting to add a package there was an error in the sourceslist. config rendering synaptic package manager useless. I cant change the ...
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A Problem has been detected with your thumbnail cache. Fixing it will require administrative priviliges

Upon opening my File Manager i receive the message 'A Problem has been detected with your thumbnail cache. Fixing it will require administrative priviliges'. This sounds a bit odd to me. Did anyone ...
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Error message "Unable to create a required folder. Please create the following folder, or set permissions such that it can be created"

I have created another user for hadoop and when I am trying to login to the new account it is giving me this error: Unable to create a required folder. Please create the following folder, or set ...
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Standard user is able to use other logged in user credentials to access Samba shares Ubuntu 14.04 [duplicate]

I have multiple user accounts on my Ubuntu Desktop 14.04 install. I have my a Samba share mounted under my administrator account using Nautilus (Ctrl+L) using credentials (smb://user@server/share). I ...
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'Scripts' menu not showing up while right clicking an empty area

I have created a custom nautilus menu by adding my executable shell script inside the ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/ directory. I can see my menu if I right click on any file/directory. But it is ...
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How to use windows network links directly in nautilus

In the mixed environment of Linux and Windows machines, there is a lot of links shared via IM, emails etc. They point to the same location, but they have different formats. For example Windows link \\...
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Cannot connect to FTP via Nautilus but FileZilla can

I tried to connect to FTP via Nautilus on Ubuntu 14.04. When I tried the address for example, ftp://whs.servername.com, nothing happen, but I can connect it via FileZilla. If I tried with SFTP, it ...
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Nautilus in Gnome: How to create a bookmark?

I'd like to create a bookmark of a folder like described here: How can you access a folder you want quickly? However, there is no menu-entry under Gnome. This is where it should appear:
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Thumbnail creation in Nautilus fails

I've tried to create a thumbnailer for Nautilus for PSD files with this configuration in /usr/share/thumbnailers/psd.thumbnailer And the following content: [Thumbnailer Entry] TryExec=convert ...
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How to make Nautilus display .psd thumbnails?

is it possible to make Nautilus display Photoshop .psd files thumbnails when viewing files in the list? If yes, what are exact steps to make it happen. Had been searching this in google, no luck so ...
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What is Shotwell doing in background permanently

My mate is a new ubuntu user, primarily as alternative to not need to upgrade to windows 10. He uses his machine mainly for archiving and reworking of hundreds of photos as he is a hobby photographer. ...
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Hide files in Gnome permamently

Whenever I hide files (Ctrl-H), when I start up Nautilus again the previously hidden files will show up again. I'm using Gnome. I don't seem to have a menu -> preferences like other postings state. ...
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Nautilus launches minimized/maximized randomly

My system: Ubuntu 15.04, GNOME Flashback (Compiz) My problem: Nautilus usually launches ok (maximized, so I can start using it), but sometimes it launches minimized (just in bottom panel, so I have to ...
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Search a specific file in Gnome file manager

This script is executed by home automation assistant in Linux 14.04, Gnome-desktop #!/bin/bash gnome-open /home/Folder && xdotool search Folder | head -n 1 | tail -n 1 | VAR1=%1 | xdotool ...
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Segmentation fault while running some ubuntu specific apps like nautilus, unity-control-center, etc

running nautilus from the terminal the following errors are returned: compro@Inspiron-3543:~/.learn_unix$ nautilus & [1] 7326 compro@Inspiron-3543:~/.learn_unix$ (nautilus:7326): Gtk-WARNING **: ...
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How to find files whose inode is not referenced by any directory

Okay, some time ago I found what seems to be a bug in nautilus. /tmp$ mkdir test/ /tmp$ mkdir test2/ /tmp$ echo "very important stuff" > test/important-file.txt /tmp$ ln -s /tmp/test/ test2/test ...
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How to remove underline in Files list view?

I have Ubuntu Gnome 15.04 and I've just installed Gnome 3.16. So far it's okay, except one thing: Is there a way to remove this dotted underlining? It appears only in list view. I've tried to dig in ...
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folder content doesn't get refreshed automatically in ubuntu 14.04

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 and when I'm doing experiments which creates new files inside a particular folder X. But I can't see these new files inside X without refreshing X. I have increased the count ...
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Nautilus file notes (user metadata) workaround: how to display note in popup?

This post gives a python program for adding and viewing notes on files under Nautilus: File notes tab gone in Nautilus 3.2.1 It works! I want more.... The annotated file does not have any ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: Need a way to recover from a system freeze I encounter often (deleting folders)

Quick bit of context: This is a machine I use at work, and I have to use 12.04 LTS. I know it's old at this point, but I can't go to a newer version. I don't know much about the inner workings of the ...
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Problems after removing gnome-shell package

I recently installed the gnome-shell package to try out gnome desktop, didn't like it so much so I removed it and returned to unity. I'm trying to fix a few things that seem to have been messed up by ...
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Why am I seeing a bomb icon on my files and folders in Ubuntu?

Why am I seeing a bomb icon on all folders and files on my desktop? I am new to Ubuntu. I tried to Google about it but only found articles about Fork Bomb attacks etc. After reading a lot on the ...
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Firefox does not open dolphin for inode/directory in kubuntu 15.04

this question has been asked multiple times like 1 and 2, but their solutions won't work anymore. Probably because of Plasma 5 and the new firefox versions. So I am using Kubuntu 15.04, Firefox 40.0 ...
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Bash script doesn't run from nautilus, but does run from terminal

Before I add more detail to my question, I have to say something very important: Yes, my script has "Allow executing file as program" turned on. The question itself: For programming reasons (...
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Nautilus-Open-Terminal tries to open ZSH instead of bash

I recently tried zsh as a shell but didn't like it much. Then removed it and I still continue to use bash. When I was using bash, I had this cool script 'nautilus-open-terminal' which lets you open a ...
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Sublime Text Won't Open Remote Via Caja (nautilus)

On my home machine (Ubuntu Mate 15.04) I use and Sublime Text (3) to edit remote files on my server via the sftp connection created in Caja (Nautilus). I'm traveling and on the laptop, it has the ...
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