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I have an issue where almost every time I use the Files file explorer it hangs and fails to open.

I found a temporary workaround on this thread which suggests doing a sudo killall nautilus to kill nautilus, which works, but I don't understand why I have to do this.

I am running Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS.

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crmpicco
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  • did you try reinstall nautilus in case something needed got uninstalled while uninstalling something else ? or did this error happen right after ubuntu installation ? – Pavlos Theodorou Jan 27 '17 at 08:22

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Try to remove it, do a repo/dependency cleanup, and reinstall it. 

sudo apt-get remove nautilus

Cleanup:

sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install nautilus
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I solved this adding following lines:

vm.dirty_background_ratio = 5
vm.dirty_ratio = 10

into /etc/sysctl.conf

and running

sudo sysctl -p

Found in this thread: System freezes/unresponsive/unusable when copying large file to USB

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Reinstalling Nautilus was not enough for me but the problem resolved when I changed and re-set region & language settings and logged back in.

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