Nemo bug?

[invex]

I have 3 directories on my desktop.
Every time I open a directory nemo-desktop process starts using about 25% of CPU and never goes down.
Clicking on the desktop and pressing F5 to refresh nemo-desktop goes down to a negligible CPU level.
Any ideas how to fix it?
TIA

[JosephM]

I couldn't reproduce this. Does it happen with all 3 directories? How many and what type of files are in one that causes the issues?

[invex]

Thank you.

Actually 2 directories. The third one is an icon to external USB drive.
There's nothing unusual about the directories. They only have pictures, text files etc.
When I open external drive everything's fine.
When I open directories (without opening files) nemo-desktop goes to 25% CPU.

[invex]

I removed both directories and created an empty directory.
Opening it causes the same problem.

[Cosmo.]

Which version of Mint is this?

[Flemur]

Just guessing, but try these...

Root owns some file(s)?

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find $HOME ! -user $USER 

If anything is returned, make yourself the owner of it.

If you don't have a lot of customization, find the nemo files...

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find $HOME  -iname "*nemo*"

and delete them.

[invex]

18.2

[invex]

I ran the command and noticed this:

find: ‘/home/mk/.cache/dconf’: Permission denied
find: ‘/home/mk/.gvfs’: Permission denied

[Cosmo.]

The first item is a bug in Mint, the second one could be the culprit for our problem. To solve it:

Mark the following command completely and make sure, that you do not miss any sign, than press ctrl-c

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find /home/$SUDO_USER ! -user $SUDO_USER -exec chown $SUDO_USER:$SUDO_USER '{}' \;

Open a terminal and enter

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sudo -i

and press the Enter-key; you get prompted for your password, enter it.
Now still in the same terminal press ctrl-shift-V
Run this command and wait until it has finished. It does not produce a readable output.
Press twice ctrl-d
Immediately log off and back into your account.

[invex]

Thank you very much.
I tried it but it didn't help.
However, I noticed that I don't have to press F5 to refresh the Desktop.
I only have to click anywhere on the Desktop and desktop-nemo CPU usage goes back to normal.
Because I didn't know if the suggested command made a difference I restored from backup and tested it again. The fact that I only have to click on the Desktop has nothing to do with applied command.

[invex]

Upgrading to 18.3 fixed the problem.