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Unable to modify files in root even after booting it up as admin

Those application directories under /snap are mount points for read only loop devices created by snapd and you can't modify them nor you need to ... Those are separate filesystems for a special ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 - "Unhandled error message: The name 1.1001 was not provided by any .service file" when trying to mount Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 Pro via USB

In addition to nautilus -q, I also had to run this to work: sudo killall gvfsd nautilus -q No need to reboot anything. Just plug again and open Nautilus.
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Ubuntu 23.04 Network File Sharing / Windows cannot access \\UBUNTU\Public

Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and right under the workgroup = WORKGROUP line add this one: force user = daryl Then restart samba: sudo service smbd restart The problem isn't samba it's a change Ubuntu ...
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Where is the Views option that allows me to arrange/sort files in Files (Nautilus)?

I found how to actually do it. As I said there is no Views option anywhere, yet all help files I found seemed to point to one. Here's a picture of where the file arrangement options actually are: ...
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.img file gets opened as read-only

I found that the issue is that the GNOME Disk Image Mounter, when run from nautilus, always mounts .img files in read-only mode. There is a request to add a read-write option but this has not been ...
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How can I report a bug about `nautilus` conveniently

In short, no. You can sign up/in to Launchpad to file bugs there. Similarly upstream projects like GNOME (where Nautilus originates) have a bug tracker you can sign up/in to also. While we do want ...
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23.04: how to add new folder to Nautilus window using GUI

I have discovered that if I move the pointer to the right hand side of the window just before the slider and at the side of the entries, and then right click the new folder option appears. I would ...
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Nautilus CLI is Extremely Slow for SSHFS Mounted Paths, but the GUI is Fast

The problem is that Nautilus is having trouble detecting that things are on a remote server. Let's make it be more careful and treat everything like it could be remote: Open the Nautilus Preferences ...
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Is it possible to permanently show hidden files?

For me selecting the GUI option did not stick even closing and re-opening the file manager would reset it to hidden. However this worked for me. Close the file manager. Edit ~/.config/gtk-2.0/...
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23.04: how to add new folder to Nautilus window using GUI

You have at least four options: Right click onto an empty area while you are in the folder you want to create new sub-folder into and select New Folder.... However, when that folder is full of files, ...
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How to find what icon file nautilus is choosing to display?

In my case, I copied the icon (a .png file; but a .svg file will be better) into the directory /usr/share/icons/Adwaita/scalable/mimetypes/, where Adwaita is my current icon scheme, and ran: $ sudo ...
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Nautilus script in ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/ doesn't show any terminal window or output

Terminal window is not created automatically. You have to create it yourself. I modified your script as follows: #!/usr/bin/bash function commands-to-be-run { echo "THIS IS TEST!" read -...
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Nautilus open terminal in remote edit command

Instead of trying to modifying that, you could modify your ~/.ssh/config to enabled ForwardX11 (the config file equivalent of -X) for that host. That will be much simpler to accomplish. For clarity, I'...
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Fail to open terminal from desktop but not from nautilus

The reason could be that you have changed the default python version in your system Open a virtual terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F3 and login with your username and password. If your original python ...
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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?

Instead of entering smb://hostname/data into the Nautilus window (CtrlL to select text input), type smb://different_user@hostname/data and it forces a login as different_user.
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How to prevent Nautilus from automatically extracting ZIP files on open

The default action is to use the external Archive Manager application when you double-click a ZIP file. However, if your setup is different, you can select a ZIP file, right-click on the file, and ...
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Does nautilus encrypt files on BitLocker encrypted drive?

What I'm confused about is, whenever I use Nautilus to copy files onto these encrypted drives on Ubuntu (using Nautilus), I can't quite tell if those files are actually being encrypted. They are. ...
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Does nautilus block hotkeys?

Nautilus does not block global shortcut keys. No application can: global shortcut keys always have priority over application specific shortcuts. The issue you see is because Ubuntu 22.04 runs on ...
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Onedrive sync folders and files without downloading them in Ubuntu 23.04

Disclosure: I am the developer of the OneDrive Client for Linux - https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive I've installed the Onedrive client on Ubuntu but it seems that it downloads all the files and I ...
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Where is the config file for setting the windows size in Ubuntu Desktop

To open a nautilus window from a script with a specific size, you can first customize the dconf setting org.gnome.nautilus.window-state initial-size to the size you want. gsettings set org.gnome....
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Copying and Pasting File paths in Ubuntu / PopOS

How to type a location in Nautilus Click on the location (like "Home"). There will be NO feedback. Simply start typing the full path. /home/$YOU/something. Now you get feedback. Hit <...
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problem locating folder in ubuntu

In your screenshot, you are not looking at "Computer". You are looking at "Home". "Home" is your user home directory: `/home/. You will find the system folders, including ...
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How to resize the icons in file browser in Ubuntu 22.04 with Gnome?

Unfortunately no. The GTK3 file picker is the file dialog you see. GTK file pickers have always been rather limited. For one, there is only a list view, no icon view, and there is no way to adapt the ...
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Templates in Ubuntu 22.04 not working

Solved! I had previously taken a step to remove items from the left side of Nautilus. It involved changing my ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file and thus Templates was pointing to the wrong location. Was ...
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Failed to connect to socket /run/user/1000/at-spi/bus: Permission denied, revisited

adding NO_AT_BRIDGE=1 to the command worked for me: sudo --user myOtherUser env DISPLAY=$DISPLAY NO_AT_BRIDGE=1 nautilus
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Nautilus still says "do not unplug the device" even if the writing process is finished

+1 for sync, suggested by @ubfan1. Wait for it to finish so that the terminal window returns to prompt. If you want to do it fool-proof (avoid problems if an unexpected write operation would occur), ...
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Add Desktop bookmark to Nautilus sidebar on Ubuntu 22.04 as it used to be in 18.04 and 20.04

As @coeur-noir mentioned, this seems to be a bug either of wayland or xorg. Here are two screenshot of nautilus places in the same computer, one on xorg and the other on wayland. The link that @coeur-...
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nautilus-compare on 22.04

For 22.04, I downloaded https://launchpadlibrarian.net/471415152/nautilus-compare_1.0.0~focal1_all.deb and it works as expected. It is only a couple of python files with very generic dependencies: $ ...
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Cannot drag and drop from nautilus to Chrome or Slack

For anyone coming here with the OP's problem: Make sure that you use the deb package for Chrome. I had Chrome via flatpack which can lead to the same symptoms. But in my case the solution was simply ...
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Nautilus sometimes spins and doesn't load everything in a dir (even a small dir)

I'm convinced it is a bug that still exist as of March 2024. I have installed Ubuntu 22.04 onto three different machines (Lenovo U430, T440, T470) (SSDs and CMR HDDs). Nautilus does hang with "...
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