Nautilus freezes up... I guess?

[anarchitektur]

I've been having this problem for a while now and I haven't had time to deal with it, but now it is really starting to annoy me, so hopefully someone can help me out...

My folders periodically stop responding. For instance, I'll double click a folder on my desktop to open it up, and then everything freezes. I can't select anything on the desktop... I click on icons and folders all I want, but nothing ever happens. All I can do to "fix" the problem is kill the Nautilus process from the system monitor and then when I access "Files" from the menu, it starts up Nautilus again and everything is fine. This happens a lot, for no particular reason, several times a day. I've run every update I could think of... Nautilus, Cinnamon, etc. all to no avail. Since I don't get any error messages, I'm completely lost and I don't know where to even begin to try to fix this.

Please help.

[esteban1uy]

Did you check the hidden file named .xsession-errors at your personal folder for some errors related to nautilus?

[anarchitektur]

No, I didn't know about that file, but I just checked it and there are a LOT of these messages:

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(nautilus:22060): Nautilus-GDU-WARNING **: unable to query info: The specified location is not supported

totem-video-thumbnailer: 'file:///home/cef/Desktop/20070209.mp3' isn't thumbnailable
Reason: Media contains no supported video streams.