Thank you for your bug report, indeed that's suboptimal but that's the way the filesystem is working and not specific to nautilus. Having to get that info in the UI would require to browse all the dir content which would be very slow. Closing as wontfix but feel free to report it upstream on https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues if you want to discuss improvements/ideas with them
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: New => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1445954 Title: Sorting of folders by modification date is meaningless To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1445954/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs