Thunar hangs when selecting many files and pressing Shift+Del
Submitted by tur..@..il.com
Assigned to Xfce Bug Triage
Description
In recent days I was working with recovered files from a damaged hard disk. As the final result included a lot of innecesary stuff, I searched for those files and erased after.
So, I open Thunar in the folder, right click, Search in this folder (Catfish opens) and look for the desired mask (ie. *.exe). Then, I press Ctrl-A (select all) and Shift-Del. So far so good, as long as the number of files found is not too big.
In my case, found more than 17000 files and when I pressed Shift-Del, Catfish hangs forever and also hangs Thunar. I waited for minutes with no signs, warnings nor progress on behalf of those two. The only way to escape is closing (forced) Catfish.
Edited by Alexander Schwinn