I found out that I can access the drives through other programs while Nautilus is frozen. I have all my music on my external drive and I can play it off that drive with a media player while Nautilus is frozen. I can also initially access the drive without any problems using a different file browser other than Nautilus.
-- [gutsy] long delay in nautilus on first access to vfat drive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/133567 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs