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About a year ago "Files" and "File Manager" started to act very strangely and all my files were lost, despite an extensive search. Two days later I lost all my data and files from my SATA hard-drive. Luckily I had a backup, but "Files" continued to lose everything every time I put removable media into the USB slots.

Frustrated with "Files" and "File manager" I installed "Thunar" which was an instant success. However "Files" is still set as the default manager for removable media and Rubbish Bin.

Today "Files" moved the contents of my terrabyte SATA drive into the Rubbish Bin and changed the permissions, which prevented me from restoring the contents back onto the drive with "Thunar". In the end I had to copy the folders onto my desktop, rename them and put them back that way.

I want to remove "Files" and "File Manager" but they cannot be un-installed in either "Software Centre" or the Dashboard. I cannot make "Thunar" open the removable media or the rubbish bin as "Files" must be the default for these operations. Is there any way of using terminal to remove these apps as they seem to be standard as part of the Ubuntu package

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Generally files is just nautilus so if you want to remove it maybe you have to execute

sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove nautilus

but I have a bad feeling about it. Nautilus is deeply integrated within ubuntu.

Anyway I found a community help wiki that has methods to set Thunar as default file manager. There's a script method and there's a manual method.

The script method should be easier however there's a disclaimer written before it. (I don't think you should worry)

To use the script method anyway make a text file in your home folder and name it defaultthunar then copy this script and paste it inside the text file.

Then run those two commands:

chmod +x defaultthunar
./defaultthunar

That's it. If you want to restore back nautilus run ./defaultthunar in terminal (which just runs the script again).

Alternatively you can do the manual method if you want.

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