The same is happening on my computer, running Ubuntu 13.10 - I previously used 12.10 and the bug was not present then. Its serious for me, especially now I have to right click the space between icons and select properties to see how much hard drive space I have remaining, older nautilus versions had the view option to show remaining space which is sadly now missing. The properties window on my computer can take between 20 seconds and 15 minutes to appear, nautilus is greyed out during this time and any file copying in the background grinds to a halt. My computer isn't particularly slow either (2.66ghz dual core). File system is EXT4. If there are any further tests to be done let me know and I'll try them out. The bug is repeatable on my machine. Rob
-- 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/1250532 Title: Very Slow to Show Properties of a File (window dims out) Status in Nautilus: Incomplete Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: When I right lick on a file, in Nautilus, and then click properties, I'm experiencing a great deal of lag before the properties are displayed. It doesn't matter if the file is small or large; it takes about 10 seconds before the properties are displayed, and the Nautilus window becomes dim during the wait. I've noticed this behavior since upgrading from Ubuntu 13.04 to 13.10, and have never experienced it prior (using the exact same hardware). dbench says my solid state hard drive's speed is over 400 MB/sec sudo apt-get install dbench ; dbench 4 4 16672 426.89 MB/sec warmup 1 sec latency 14.404 ms 4 35634 418.37 MB/sec warmup 2 sec latency 11.449 ms 4 54492 412.88 MB/sec warmup 3 sec latency 9.392 ms 4 72852 409.45 MB/sec warmup 4 sec latency 11.530 ms 4 91399 406.85 MB/sec warmup 5 sec latency 11.072 ms 4 110254 407.92 MB/sec warmup 6 sec latency 12.197 ms My hard drive is very capable of pulling a file's properties quickly, so I'm reporting this as a bug in Nautilus (where I'm experiencing this issue). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: nautilus 1:3.8.2-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-13.20-generic 3.11.6 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-13-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: wl ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Nov 12 09:33:50 2013 GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'800x550+2258+294'" b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'maximized' b'true' InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-07 (36 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: nautilus UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-18 (25 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/1250532/+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