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Having issues with Thunar freezing at random points in a file transfer operation. Requiring a hard re-boot to unfreeze it.

CharlesV wrote: Fri Oct 04, 2024 4:55 pm ... and right here! is where I am going to say a swap file may indeed help you!

Kester wrote: Sat Oct 05, 2024 6:55 am Hi pax-eterna,
Like your forum name - wish it's sentiments were followed throughout the world today.

Having issues with Thunar freezing at random points in a file transfer operation. Requiring a hard re-boot to unfreeze it.

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Hopefully you will soon resolve this problem but when windows freeze a hard re-boot should be considered a last resort - have you tried the 'xkill' command. Open a terminal window and type xkill then click <ENTER>. If that fails to close the stuck window then it is safer to reboot your system using the 'REISUB' command when access to your normal restart procedure is impossible. To use the command hold the 'ALT' key down and press in turn the 'Print Screen' key, then 'R', 'E', 'I', 'S', 'U' and 'B'. Don't be too quick between key presses if you are a touch typist - my two finger typing speed however is ok with this command.

pax-eterna wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2024 4:00 pm

CharlesV wrote: Fri Oct 04, 2024 4:55 pm ... and right here! is where I am going to say a swap file may indeed help you!

thanks - hasn't been on issue on other "flavours" of linux tbh.

pax-eterna wrote: Fri Oct 04, 2024 4:50 pm Transferring files from NTFS usb drive. Already tried marking the NTFS drive as read only, however issue still remains.

Tried letting it run the transfer without touching anything else, still happens. Usually at about 60-70% of a multi gig file!!

Is Dolphin or some other app better for this kind of thing?

CharlesV wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2024 4:38 pm

pax-eterna wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2024 4:00 pm

CharlesV wrote: Fri Oct 04, 2024 4:55 pm ... and right here! is where I am going to say a swap file may indeed help you!

thanks - hasn't been on issue on other "flavours" of linux tbh.

This is all about the what needs it. Some applications will just not function properly without one. I ran Mint on a 64gb machine for around a year with no swap... getting "little issues" .. until one day someone pointed it out. I added a swap and those little issues went away

Here in the forum, we have plenty of observations where having a swap resolved issues. (and sometimes ... very 'small' little things.

Sorry have been away from forum for a while....is it possible to add a swap file post installation? And if so best way to do this?
thanks

j2mcgreg wrote: Tue Oct 29, 2024 1:50 pm @pax-eterna wrote:

Sorry have been away from forum for a while....is it possible to add a swap file post installation? And if so best way to do this?
thanks

Here are easy to follow instructions:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/ ... -debian-11

CharlesV wrote: Tue Oct 29, 2024 1:53 pm No worries. Yes, very easy to do. Here are a couple of links that show how to.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/ ... -debian-11

https://www.howtogeek.com/455981/how-to ... -on-linux/

User0x55 wrote: Thu Jan 02, 2025 3:18 pm Was the problem ever solved or is a workaround suggested?

Unfortunately I'm having the same issues with an external NTFS drive encrypted with Bitlocker.
I need to move my data from Windows to MX Linux and twice I had to resort to REISUB to shut my PC down (once using Thunar and once using cp).
Now I'm scared to damage the system when doing this.

I may try to copy my files in small chunks, but this is quite tedious and I'm not sure it will really help.
In other forums in similar cases it was suggested to blacklist the ntfs3 driver and use ntfs-3g.
What do you guys recommend?

module_blacklist=ntfs3