This bug also affects me and I agree with #15, the problem seems to be the thumbnails preview.
I have a folder with 700 small .jpg files (something between 160Kb and 400Kb), totaling 238Mb. Nautilus: - with thumbnails enable takes approximately 80 seconds to stop "loading" all files. - with thumbnails disable, it only takes 4 seconds Thunar: - takes 1 second, it doesn't really matter (at least to my eyes) if thumbnails are enable or not. I love Nautilus' features and integration with Gnome, but this problem has been a real pain... (using Ubuntu 13.10 64bit, on a Core i5-3427U CPU @ 1.80GHz × 4 with 8Gb of RAM - ThinkPad X1) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/869793 Title: Nautilus is very slow when opening folders with many files Status in Nautilus: Confirmed Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Opening folders with many files takes a long time with Nautilus, to the point it becomes unusable for folders with more than 5K files. I've measured the time it takes for folders with different amount of files to open with Nautilus and Gnome Commander. It is ~6 times faster with GC on average. In folders with ~20K files, it takes 30s with nautilus versus 6! with GC. With Nautilus ~3500 files tales 6 seconds ~7000 files takes 18 seconds ~15000 files takes 22 seconds ~20000 files takes 30 seconds With Gnome Commander ~3500 files tales <1 second ~7000 files takes 1.5 seconds ~15000 files takes 3 seconds ~20000 files takes 6 seconds These are mostly small dicom files (MRI images). I am using a 8 core 3.4Ghz and 16Gigs of RAM with Ubuntu 11.04 64-bits. Also, of course, things like selecting all files and copying them around is absurdly slow and makes nautilus unusable... but that would be another bug report (?). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/869793/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
