Thunar and Dolphin

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I use Manjaro Xfce with the default Thunar file explorer, but I’m experiencing some problems with Thunar. When I want to transfer large amounts of data between two external hard drives, it regularly crashes. The only thing I can do then is to shut down the laptop using the power button and restart it. I have now installed Dolphin from the repositories and I don’t have that problem there. Can I use both (Thunar and Dolphin) or will this cause conflicts in the long run? Thanks in advance!

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You can use any file manager you like. :wink: Of course, dolphin won’t be as integrated with Xfce as thunar, but it’s all perfectly doable. :wink:

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The Utilities tab of the Default Applications window allows user to set default File Manager

xfce:xfce4-settings:preferred-apps [Xfce Docs]

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You can also try some other filemanagers that are nonkde based. Like PCmanFM

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I tried it but I miss the possibility to remove safely an USB device

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You could also try nemo the cinnamon file manager.

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I’ve had issues in the past - dragging and dropping large transfers, especially if there’s a USB involved…

I would suggest something you can resume… I personally like rsync for the job.

I like it Verbose, I like Progress to see what’s going on. Also preserving permissions, timestamps, symlinks.

rsync -avh --progress /mnt/W2/Data /mnt/T3/Data
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I wonder if installing the udev-usb-sync package might also help out? It is available from Manjaro’s repos:

pamac install udev-usb-sync

or

sudo pacman -Syu udev-usb-sync

pamac info udev-usb-sync

Name                  : udev-usb-sync
Version               : 1.0-1
Description           : Fine tune write cache and impose buffer limits when USB storage device is plugged
URL                   : https://gitlab.manjaro.org/applications/udev-usb-sync
Licenses              : MIT
Repository            : extra
Installed Size        : 7.8 kB
Groups                : --
Depends On            : hdparm bc
Optional Dependencies : --
Required By           : --
Optional For          : --
Provides              : --
Replaces              : --
Conflicts With        : --
Packager              : Mark Wagie <mark@manjaro.org>
Build Date            : Sat 29 Mar 2025 02:57:55
Install Date          : Wed 02 Apr 2025 16:48:09
Install Reason        : Explicitly installed
Validated By          : Signature
Backup files          : /etc/udev-usb-sync/udev-usb-sync.conf

The GitLab page:

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