nautilus removal ubuntu

Explain what you mean "I put nautilus" . Nautilus is pre-installed in Ubuntu vanilla version .. Do you have another version of Ubuntu ? e.g Xubuntu or Lubuntu or what ?
Maybe you mean you upgraded nautilus to a newer version ?

BE AWARE that if you have Ubuntu vanilla version with nautilus pre-installed you have to BE CAREFUL because the command below probably will also remove other packages.. READ BEFORE press Y(es).

From terminal (CTRL+ALT+T)

$ sudo apt-get remove --purge nautilus*

Thanks

Its a package like any other, installing nautilus will not make your 'slave drive crash'

sudo apt-get remove -- purge nautilus* command not found I had ubuntu 11.04 and it worked fine, slave drive and all. I wanted to convert file extensions. after I installed nautilus when i try to open the slave drive, its seems that nautilus wants to open every single file on the drive, (300) gigs This causes the processor to run at 100% for hours and nothing happens, in the occasion that the slave drive does open as soon as you try and work with any file it freezes. I've up graged to the 12.04 no help.

You added a space between the double hyphen and the word purge

sudo apt-get remove -- purge nautilus*

is not

sudo apt-get remove --purge nautilus*

Yes , be careful when you write the commands. Linux is sensitive in such things. Upper case , lower case , dashes , commas , spaces ..etc

Also you can try

$ sudo apt-get purge nautilus*

Thanks

unfortunately you can't see the spaces in the commands on this end, yes it did remove nautilus, however now there is no home folder

Thanks NikTh, that solved my question.