Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) reached end-of-life on April 28, 2017.
See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. If you then find the bug is still present in the newer Ubuntu version, please add a comment here telling us which new version it is in and change the bug status to Confirmed. Additionally I've tested this on Ubuntu 17.10 and can't reproduce the bug -- 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/1252018 Title: "Loading..." message shown for folders with hidden files Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: When a directory containing only hidden files but Natulis setting for displaying hidden files is disable, is expanded in the "List View" mode the "Loading..." message is displayed rather than another one more appropriate like the "(Empty)". 1)$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS Release: 12.04 2)$ apt-cache policy nautilus nautilus: Installed: 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu8 Candidate: 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu8 Version table: *** 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu8 0 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:3.4.1-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages 3) To display the label "(Empty)" 4) Displaying the label "Loading..." To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1252018/+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
