Over the last couple of weeks, I've had a problem with Thunar hanging. It happens when I drag / drop files. The entire desktop freezes. I can't access any menus, and I have the hour glass pointer. However, videos carry on playing.

If I log in over ssh and do killall thunar then I regain control.

Anyone else having this problem?

Don't you have a network drive?

If so, have a look at >this thread<

No network drives, so it shouldn't be hanging waiting for those.

I did find quite a few reasons for Thunar to hang while I was googling, but nothing that seemed relevant

I think I'm going to install it fresh on the media centre tonight and see if that ever gets the same problem - although that will have a network mapping so perhaps I'll need to follow the advice for that!

Thanks for looking, will update if I make any progress.

Not that I'm familiar with Thumar, but I there anything is its logs?

Are you using the tree view in the side pane? Does it go away if you use the shortcuts view?

Yes I'm mostly using tree view - I think probably every time it crashed because it's my default view.

However, it's not easily reproducible - I should have mentioned this. It happens maybe twice a week, but always when drag-dropping a file from Thunar to a different window. Thinking about it, it's usually a video file because mostly I'm trying to sort things off my oldest drive into the right folders on my newer drive. It hangs before I actually drop the file anywhere. I don't know if it's because they are large files, because they are video, or perhaps it's just a coincidence because that's mostly what I'm dragging around...

I can't find any Thunar specific logs. The only entries in syslog are cron jobs. Not sure what to look for really?

Hmm... It could be Thunar's old large file issue again - hope not.

Not sure what to suggest really, apart from trying an alternative.

have you tried running thunar in sudo

open a terminal and write
sudo thunar

enter your pass word

then try dragging and dropping files

if it works in sudo it maybe a permission problem

also have a look at the thunar plugin page it may help to have the plugins installed ...
http://users.xfce.org/~benny/projects/t ... ve-plugin/

I wonder if I'm jinxing it when I say it hasn't happened since the last post here. I'm hoping an update fixed it. There have been enough of them!