ubuntu Nautilus won’t open, or fails often

Posted on by Jeff

“Files” File manager (Nautilus) is not working on an Ubuntu system. Files either stops working, or won’t load at all.

try:

  1. reinstalling nautilus-data using below command
sudo apt-get install --reinstall nautilus-data  ## this one worked in 22.04
  1. terminating the running nautilus process
ps awx | grep nautilus
sudo kill (process ID)
  1. Uninstalling and reinstalling Nautilus

sudo apt-get remove nautilus

sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install nautilus