Still this way years later on Bionic with 4 cores and 8 GB RAM I just tried to open a folder of maybe 100 images from my camera average 7 MB each after maybe 3 minutes of no preview or listing of any of them, I got frustrated and started searching for a way to make Nautilus not even just faster but even usable. I use it to display my desktop (metacity w/ Gnome flashback )or I would just make some other ANY other file manager be default.
-- 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/869793 Title: Nautilus is very slow when opening folders with many files Status in Nautilus: New Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Opening folders with many files takes a long time with Nautilus, to the point it becomes unusable for folders with more than 5K files. I've measured the time it takes for folders with different amount of files to open with Nautilus and Gnome Commander. It is ~6 times faster with GC on average. In folders with ~20K files, it takes 30s with nautilus versus 6! with GC. With Nautilus ~3500 files tales 6 seconds ~7000 files takes 18 seconds ~15000 files takes 22 seconds ~20000 files takes 30 seconds With Gnome Commander ~3500 files tales <1 second ~7000 files takes 1.5 seconds ~15000 files takes 3 seconds ~20000 files takes 6 seconds These are mostly small dicom files (MRI images). I am using a 8 core 3.4Ghz and 16Gigs of RAM with Ubuntu 11.04 64-bits. Also, of course, things like selecting all files and copying them around is absurdly slow and makes nautilus unusable... but that would be another bug report (?). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/869793/+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
