This is a problem that affects us on a daily basis. When our user home
directory quotas are full and they attempt file operations in nautilus
it causes the gvfsd-metadata process to use over 80% of a CPU and
generates excessive nfs traffic. This is a problem that needs to be
fixed.
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You
It's not great, but I have found a way of correcting this problem if
creating a .Trash-$USER doesn't work, or if it's too late to try that.
If you install amarok you can right click on your ipod file list and
select repair ipod-scan for orphaned and missing files. This will
create a list of files