The sudo mv ~/.cache/thumbnails ~/.cache/thumbnails_ ln -s ~/.thumbnails ~/.cache/thumbnails did the trick for me as well.
I have noticed that ~/.cache/thumbnails only had permissions for the root user. Plus, it just had a size of just 24kilobytes, which means it did not really contain thumbnails. Which is why nautilus did not display any on 14.04. In the end, I can work three times as long as before on battery and, as a bonus, I even can SEE the thumbnails. By simply fixing a symlink. I just can't understand why this bug, which is fixable THAT easy still is not fixed in the packages. Btw, I did not notice the cpu consumption of nautilus in 12.04.4, which means it seems to be a regression after updating to 14.04. And I updated just some days ago, so I guess the transition during the update to 14.04 still is buggy. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1069843 Title: Nautilus consuming memory and cpu To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1069843/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
