I am experiencing a similar issue;
after reinstalling latest VMWare 64bit version and doing
Code:
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
The "Places" dropdown menu opens the locations with Disk Usage Analyzer.
File manager nowhere to be seen anymore...
EDIT
Well a solution was posted online elsewhere but OP forgot to update his post here I guess..
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...ing-dependency
Code:
wget http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnome-desktop3/libgnome-desktop-3-18_3.34.1-1_amd64.deb
wget http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnome-desktop3/gnome-desktop3-data_3.34.1-1_all.deb
dpkg -i gnome-desktop3-data_3.34.1-1_all.deb
dpkg -i libgnome-desktop-3-18_3.34.1-1_amd64.deb
apt install nautilus
The above has been tested on vmware image and can confirm it fixed my issues in any case.