Ext. NTFS HDD drive, caja all ways open on the last directory will hang up

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@lah7

An underlying system issue could also cause such behaviour

There is a chance that the bug is the NTFS3 driver
It could be the same issue that @Crotchety encountered:

@Crotchety

I had multiple external NTFS drives (needed for cross-os compatibility) organized with symbolic links to avoid duplication of files, and Ubuntu's change in the NTFS driver rendered them totally unusable. This was addressed by blacklisting the NTFS-3 driver which forces a return to NTFS-3G. This also fixed an even more serious issue where the newer driver would randomly unmount the drive with the file system 'dirty bit' set, and refuse to remount it.

It might be worth to try:

echo "blacklist ntfs3" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/disable-ntfs3.conf

and reboot.