Thank you for your bug report, do you have lot of documents in that directory? the Template dir is what nautilus use to build its context menu "create new document", if you have hundred of files in there it will create hundred of template entries...
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- 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/1010462 Title: Changing XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR rapidly slows nautilus start Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: When i set in user-dirs.dirs XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/doc" XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/doc" nautilus hangs for few seconds when starting This setting works flawlessly XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/doc" XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/" Hope it narrows down source of the problem === Linux zapp 3.2.0-24-generic #39-Ubuntu SMP Mon May 21 16:52:17 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux ii nautilus 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu1 file manager and graphical shell for GNOME ii xdg-user-dirs 0.14-0ubuntu2 tool to manage well known user directories To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1010462/+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