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why is nautilus slow?

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Mar 15, 202615194 views
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I'm wondering why Nautilus is very slow when opening a directory containing lots of files. My /usr/lib dir for example has 1900 files and it takes approximately 5+ seconds to show everything. It has been like this since I installed Ubuntu few months ago and it's really quite annoying sometimes. I d…

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Tracing the execution of shows that the slowness is due to a combination of two factors: It's smart about displaying useful information about each file. It looks inside the contents of files to determine what icon to use, and possibly show a preview…

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