Slow Nautilus

[timbo]

For a while now Nautilus file browser is very slow and takes several seconds before it's entirely loaded and all folders are displayed. I don't remember encountering this behaviour on the fresh install of LMDe with Cinnamon. I accidentally deleted the Music library once from the sidebar after which /home couldn't be accessed and other weird things happened. I purged Cinnamon and Nautilus but neither step got rid of the problem.

[DrHu]

I might look at thumbnail display and perhaps reduce memory available for that method..
--If I was reinstalling nautilus, I would completely remove it and its initis, in your /home and by using purge with apt-get remove nautilus

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apt-get remove --purge nautilus

 apt-get clean
--you might not want to use this command, research on Internet !

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1157139

http://subbass.blogspot.ca/2009/05/is-y ... -open.html

When you log back in Nautilus should be opening directories instantly again. Apparently this became an issue in 8.10 when Assistive technologies was enabled by default

Anonymous said...
I've been using Linux since the mid-90s and Ubuntu since 2007. Nautilus is a reasonably good window manager but it is not on par performance-wise with the rest of the OS. I have a pretty quick machine but it sometimes feels like I'm still in 1986.
For example (with Assistive Technologies off), if one opens a window in list mode and tries to then click to open a subdirectory or type the beginning of a directory name in order to select it, Nautilus first updates all of the subdirectory's item counts before paying attention to the user input.

One could always choose a better file manager, such as Gnome commander
--that should be faster being derivative (in style or method) from the famous xtree

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XTree

http://www.nongnu.org/gcmd/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compariso ... e_managers

[timbo]

Thanks for your detailed response! I purged Nautilus and deleted the files in .config, disabled desktop management and the preview thumbnails, but Nautilus remained as sluggish as it had been before.

[timbo]

It appears that Nautilus-dropbox slowed the file browser down a lot and after removing it, the problem does not exist any longer. It's somewhat disappointing that I can't use it properly, but at least Nautilus runs again as it should.