Nautilus keeps getting stuck on opening

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I see this as well. How frequent is probably a matter of perception. I would probably say 'occasionally' in my case.

I also find that a minimized Nautilus sometimes will not restore to an open window. In this case, it has already been launched and a process is running. Using 'Quit' from rt.-click menu fails to close it. Kill is the only option.

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You already tried a Reinstall ... maybe we should try it a different Way: with Uninstall and then install again.

So, first type sudo apt purge nautilus and then make a sudo apt autoremove and after this reboot. Then install nautilus with sudo apt install nautilus

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for my part I tried it all of this

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It's so unpredictable that it's extremely hard to understand what the problem is. Mine is opening fine again. I can't even try to understand the pattern for the failure because it works randomly (or maybe the pattern is just even more unexpected)

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it can work fine for a day and the next day it stuck many time, I spent hours to try to find a way...

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I made two other observations:

1- When I try to permanently delete a file, the dialog box no longer plays a sound. I then tested it with Nemo, and the dialog box sound is present there.

2- There's a problem displaying thumbnails for PNG and SVG files, which show the transparent background of the images.

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some more clues and investigation:

I realized that if I leave a nautilus window always open, then it will keep working. If I close that window and open it again, it works.
It seems to me that the problem reappears after it is closed for some time...

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Yeah the same...

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@AZorin sorry to bother you, do you have an idea about this problem please ?

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This is not a permanent fix but the freqency of crash is reduce, try that :

sudo sh -c 'echo "GSK_RENDERER=cairo" >> /etc/environment'

or that:

sudo sh -c 'echo "GSK_RENDERER=gl" >> /etc/environment'

Then reboot, you can't have both in the evironment file.

The second for me really reduce the freqency but it's not perfect

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Settings>System>System Details>(Software Information - windowing system) on Z18

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This problem seems to be "spreading" to other apps as well.
Yesterday I was trying to open an image (using the default image viewer) and it didn't open. Then after 2minutes it opened out of the blue.
Same with firefox file dialogs.