8.10 won't open my home folder

Thank you for solving my problem. Worked like a charm - Chelsea J.

Thanks marcobra, that solved my question.

I have a similar problem, but not quite the same. It opens every folder except my home (or related ones, like Documents). When I try to open home (from Places > Home Folder or from an open instance of Nautilus) it just crashes and closes. The "Open Folder" that marcobra mentioned above is already checked. Under "permissions" I find my name as both owner and Group with folder access set to "create and delete files." But I tried changing the Group to root and it didn't work.

Any help is appreciated.

I'm not sure if this will give you the help you need, but this is what
worked for me. Initially, what I did before I even posted the question on
launchpad was I went to Systems>Preferences>Keyboard Shortcuts. There I
discovered that any keyboard shortcut to open the home folder was disabled.
I assigned the F8 key to it as a shortcut because insofar as I could
determine that particular key was not assigned to anything else. That
immediately solved my problem in that I could now easily access my home
folder, which I could not before. I still could not get to it in the usual
way of going to Places>Home Folder, however. While I found that marcobra's
answer to my query did indeed solve my problem, and now I could get to my
Home Folder in the usual way after applying the steps he suggested, I have a
friend here locally who had a similar dilemma and tried a simple, yet
somewhat drastic method that worked for them. Like me, they have been using
Ubuntu since 7.04 and have simply updated to the new iterations as they came
along. They found themselves in the same dilemma as myself with 8.10, not
being able to access their Home Folder at all. Unlike me, following
marcobra's solution did not solve the problem for them. Then they decided
to try a somewhat drastic measure. Their theory was that if they did a
total clean install of the newest version of the OS this might possibly work
better than an update. They are very picky about always backing up all
their data in the first place, so replacing what would be wiped out in their
case would not require much effort. To make a long story short, they
downloaded and burned the image for 8.10 and installed it from scratch,
wiping the HD clean in the process and it worked letter-perfect. It took a
little while to replace the backed-up data, and now they are good to go.
Anyway, those are the only solutions to this dilemma of which I myself am
personally aware. I hope that this has proven to be of help to you.
Peace! - Chelsea J.

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 12:36 PM, mahdiarnt <
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> Your question #49943 on nautilus in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+question/49943
>
> mahdiarnt posted a new comment:
> I have a similar problem, but not quite the same. It opens every folder
> except my home (or related ones, like Documents). When I try to open
> home (from Places > Home Folder or from an open instance of Nautilus) it
> just crashes and closes. The "Open Folder" that marcobra mentioned
> above is already checked. Under "permissions" I find my name as both
> owner and Group with folder access set to "create and delete files."
> But I tried changing the Group to root and it didn't work.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> --
> You received this question notification because you are a direct
> subscriber of the question.
>

Thank you Chelsea J. But assigning a shortcut did not help. Nautilus crashes the moment it's invoked.

My problem was solved. It was because of the (unintended!) presence of a file with bad characters.

This didn't remove my problem - very confused now.

my home folder (/home/ben) refused to open for a while, nautilus crashing whenever it went close.

Now I deleted a lot of things, and it's mereley very slow. I mean - I can open /home in a browser, but when I right click the 'ben' folder it takes AT LEAST 5 seconds for a context menu to open.

Starting fresh - killall nautilus
nautilus - gives me my home/ben folder already open.

type / in the address bar to browse to root - so far fast and blingy

Right click 'var' and open in new tab - no problem. Closed that, and try doing a right click to bring up the context menu on each folder, then dismissing it.

When I try the 'home' folder, it's stuck again.... 4 seconds!!!
I noticed 'lib' has a delay of around 2 seconds.

What is the issue here? Just a minute ago, I couldn't go there at all without crashing nautilus, but there's still a horrific delay.

Should we only browse empty folders? Thunar is very very fast and has no problems going anywhere!

Now I have this problem.

Runing jaunty though - Toolbar, Places - Home Folder. fails to open home folder, instead it opens Amarok! Then Amarok struggles to start properly.

I have tried the above "fixes" yet these only seem to circumvent the problem with creating a 'shortcut' to in this case ... Home folder.
So now I'm subscribed to this link for any fixes to the Toolbar and NOT to creating a shortcut icon.

Thanks

have a similar problem with a Trash (Deleted Items Basket). If there is a single file in it then on clicking the applet it flashes the trash folder and then closes it. If i empty it with a right click and then click on it again then it works but otherwise not.
i can access /.local/share/Trash even when it has files in it, but there are strange access rights on folder. i am on Jaunty.