nautilus hangs when previewing files

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Thanks for taking time to look at it:

... I must say that after few updates some of it doesn't show up as often as it did before but i still get "2nd & 3rd" quite often, 3rd with info: "The folder contents could not be displayed. Sorry, couldn't display all the contents of "folder name" " and all my files and folders on desktop are not accessible and files turn into empty files, clicking on them do nothing. It usually happens after going through lots of files (browsing mp3 etc) I'd say about 100-200.
After that only ctrl+alt+backspace save me coz regular shut down doesn't work.
Thank You. I love ubuntu!

I had exactly the same thing happen to me yesterday. I had 2 file browser windows open to compile an mp3 cd. From one window I was quickly opening mp3 files to have a quick listen with totem movie player and if I liked the file, I dragged it into another folder in the second browser. After 20 files, the exact symptoms described in this bug report appeared.
I then checked my system monitor and found nautilus was using 50% of system resources. CTRL-ALT_DEL and a new login brought back the desktop, but not always. At other times (I had the problems at least a dozen times) after supplying my login and password I just got a brown screen and nothing happened (I could still switch to terminal with CTRL-ALT-F1). At other times, the desktop came back but no wallpaper and no icons on the Desktop.
By the way, the MP3 file were on a mounted NTFS partition.

For the rest I really had the same symptoms as posted above.

Please tell me what more info you need.

Sorry, forgot: completely updated gutsy with desktop effects enabled.

Doesn't seem to be an xorg issue, but nautilus.

Well, it has not happened ever since, but then again I have not had a quick mp3 browsing session again since that time.

I will try with hardy alpha 3 one of these days.

I've found solution to this problem on the web. I would've never thought that it's gonna be that simple.
Here is a link originally posted by vanadium:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4010058

now I can do what I need to without having crashes every 20 minutes.

Is this a "bug" ? Might be it crashes everything if you don't change settings.
It wasn't happening in feisty fawn 7.04 so why it does in gutsy gibbon 7.10 ?

Reviewing this bug report and its comments it seems that multiple people are experiencing this problem. Subsequently, I am confirming this bug report. For future reference you can manage the status of bug reports by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status .

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Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!.