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[Serah Allison <icarean@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have encountered this same bug moving around 1,000 image files between local folders with Ubuntu 15.10. Killing the process, disabling preview (as suggested by khadgaray in comment #7) then trying again made the move nearly instantaneous. Re-enabling preview after the move showed the correct file previews in the new folder immediately. Therefore the problem (for me at least) seems to be entirely in the image preview process).
Package nautilus:
i   1:3.14.2-0ubuntu9.1                           vivid-updates

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Title:
  cut-n-paste move files got stuck forever

Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  With Nautilus, I navigated to a folder that contained about 2,000 gif files.
  I selected all of them
  I cut with Ctrl+X
  I navigated to another folder
  I pasted with Ctrl+V

  => A popup window appeared saying "Preparing to move N files", and it got stuck there forever.
  Nautilus stopped responding. I waited half an hour, then I had to kill it.

  Actually some of the files were moved. Which is the worst thing that
  could happen.

  I tried again with the remaining files and it happened again!! It's
  systematic!!!!!!

  I suspect it has to do with displaying the previews of a big number of
  files. Nautilus becomes completely unmanageable whenever you open
  folders with lots of files. Maximum priority should be given to the UI
  and actual operations; displaying of the previews should be done in
  the background and should never, ever slow down user operations the
  slightest bit. Seems pretty obvious.

  Also note that 2000 is not even that much. Actually it's very few
  files.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: nautilus 1:3.5.90.really.3.4.2-0ubuntu4.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-25.38-generic 3.5.7.4
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-25-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Tue Feb 26 18:23:52 2013
  GsettingsChanges:
   b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'1312x713+64+71'"
   b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'sidebar-width' b'180'
   b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'start-with-status-bar' b'true'
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-06-23 (979 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: nautilus
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2013-01-13 (44 days ago)

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