"...but normally the only file manager I have more than one of open at a time is Midnight Commander..."

I get the impression this bug will also occur with Midnight Commander, since I've seen a similar bug with KDE 3.5 that affected all programs opened in a GUI session with user privileges other than those of the full GUI session, whether those other user privileges were root or another regular user other than the one for the full GUI session.

This bug appears to be some kind of conflict or overload problem since it, so far, has only occurred when I load a DVD and only when opening a folder on the DVD that has more than 1000 files in it, and, so far, has not occurred even when I've had as many as 8 root file manager windows open but with no DVD loaded.

Is it possible for you to be able to get someone from the TDE development team at https://www.trinitydesktop.org/contributors.php to look at this?  The ideal work around is that some configuration setting somewhere can be changed to avoid this bug.

Alec Destry composed on 2025-03-06 23:37 (UTC-0800):

About a week ago, I reported this bug in TDE 14.1.3 at 
https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tde/issues/224 but, so 
far, nothing has happened.  Is that where bugs should be reported?

Suggested possible workaround until fixed → do as I do: I rarely use a GUI file
manager. On rare occasions I will use Konq as file manager, but normally the only
file manager I have more than one of open at a time is Midnight Commander, which I
normally open from a Konsole menu in a new tab, not from the Kicker menu.