One day I was servicing a client when they mentioned that searching for files on the file share drive was causing File Explorer to crash. I’ve never heard of that so I asked for them to show me. Sure enough, after digging deep enough into their file structure, they start a search and File Explorer would crash. This was occurring after a Windows 10 upgrade, so I wondered if maybe Windows 10 was suffering from corruption of some kind.
After some work we were still no closer to the solution.
Finally, I researched the issue for some time and found a solution.
Browse to the drive folder, then click on the View Tab. Click Options, then click the View Tab again inside the window. Under files and Folders, check the box that says “Always show icons, never thumbnails” and click apply. After that, the crashes stopped.