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** Changed in: nautilus
       Status: Fix Released => Confirmed

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Title:
  should ask confirmation before opening a multiple items selection

Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
  Fix Released
Status in Nautilus:
  Confirmed
Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  When you select multiple files in Nautilus and accidentally open them
  (by wrong click, by Intro key...), Nautilus tries to open all of them
  at once in multiple instances of the default application. This can
  make your system totally unresponsive and force you to do a hard
  restart if they are many (try with 2.000, for example) or they are
  heavy (video, for example). Even if it doesn't come to that, it's
  annoying to have to close then one by one.

  In Windows if you try to open many files at once there is a warning
  ('You are trying to open multiple files', I think), giving you the
  option to cancel or open them anyway. I think Nautilus should do the
  same. After all, how often do you need to open 20 files at once?

  To have an option to close all open instances of an app at once would
  be very usefull too.

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