Good(ish) news: It seems that this bug has been fixed in versions 3.6 and later of nautilus (see below). Ubuntu LTS users (like me) are currently on 3.4. It would be good if ubuntu pushed an update that upgraded the nautilus version. Otherwise I guess we wait until April 2014....
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=711256 nautilus | File Properties Dialog | 3.4.x António Fernandes <AntonioJPFernandes> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED CC| |[email protected] | |m Resolution| |DUPLICATE --- Comment #1 from António Fernandes <[email protected]> 2013-11-01 13:01:03 UTC --- Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but we are happy to tell you that the problem has already been fixed. It should be solved in version 3.6 and later. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 78789 *** -- 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/1171771 Title: Indicate directory size calculation in properties dialog Status in Nautilus: Opinion Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: This bug can be reproduced by selecting a directory with a large number of files occupying significant disk space (e.g. > 1GB). Right click the directory in nautilus and select properties. Expected behaviour: In the "Contents" field of the "properties" dialog box nautilus should display the correct number of files in the directory and sub-directories and the disk space used (e.g. "67,292 items, totalling 10.3 GB"). Or nautilus should indicate that this information is unknown and/or being computed. Actual behaviour: nautilus displays incorrect values for the number of items and disk space (always an underestimate), which periodically update (increase) until the correct values are reached. Between updates there is no indication that the values are still being computed or that the currently displayed values are wrong. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: nautilus 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu7 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-40.64-generic 3.2.40 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-40-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Apr 23 10:00:10 2013 GsettingsChanges: org.gnome.nautilus.window-state geometry '894x654+784+367' org.gnome.nautilus.window-state sidebar-width 149 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: nautilus UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-22 (335 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/1171771/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
