Nautilus (file manager) in Zorin 18 randomly stuck and thumbnails problem

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For those who encounter a problem with Nautilus freezing during launch or use

Remove folder color

sudo apt remove folder-color

for now it seem working fine, if you can test and tell me if it work for you it could be great

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A little trick if you have some thumbnails problem with SVG and PNG ( thumbnails have no background)

Clear thubmails cache:

rm -rf ~/.cache/thumbnails/*

Open your terminal and create/edit your profile's CSS file (if it doesn't already exist):

nano ~/.config/gtk-4.0/gtk.css

Copy and paste these lines inside:

.nautilus-window.view .thumbnail {
background: none;
box-shadow: none;
}

Save (Ctrl+O, Enter) and exit (Ctrl+X).

Restart Nautilus to see the change:

nautilus -q

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I tested your method with removing the folder-color on my Zorin 18 live system two days and nautilus didn't hang since then :grinning_face:. I will continue testing it next week. Thank you for the tip!

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My pleasure :wink:

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@AZorin Thank you for the patch you deployed hours ago for this problem

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What does this actually do?

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What patch was deployed? I still had this problem today, and uninstalled folder-color. It seems now it no longer freezes.
But I was curious about the patch.

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they build a patch in January for the folder-color problem

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I did not receive anything of the sorts via updates, and as mentioned I still had the problem at that time. I fixed it via uninstalling folder-color.

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removing the old folder-color was the good thing to do, if you want this functionality back, you can try the corrected extension I made, take a look at this