copy directory to USB Hdd is extremly slow

[Borim]

I used Nautilus to copy a data folder (~50 GB) to a USB Hdd. After waiting one day I aborted the copy process, as only a little more than half the data was transferred. I made a screenshot before aborting the copy process and attached it to the bug report.

With the cp command it just took about 1h to copy the whole directory.

The huge difference make nautilus unusable for big file transfers.

A rough overview of the directory content:
* source code and build (47 GB)
* cd images (3 GB)
* binaries (500 MB)
* java api doc (350 MB)
* documents, pictures, music (300 MB)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.5.90.really.3.4.2-0ubuntu4.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-28.48-generic 3.5.7.9
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-28-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu May 16 19:33:53 2013
GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'800x550+564+189'"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-22 (145 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Is that still an issue in newer versions?

[Borim (borim)]

Tested with GNOME nautilus 3.26.4 and the bug no longer occur