takes ages to show contents of some folders with very few files

[Teo]

There are a few particular folders in my filesystem which don't have anything special (that I know of) and that do _not_ contain many files or subfolder (just a dozen items), which at random times take several seconds to show up when I open them in Nautilus.

Most of the times it happens when it's the first time I open that folder (since boot) or when a long time has passed since the last time I opened that folder. After that, if I exit and reenter the folder it opens fast.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-32.51-generic 3.2.30
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-32-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu14
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Oct 16 22:03:12 2012
GsettingsChanges:
 org.gnome.nautilus.window-state geometry '1249x780+117+22'
 org.gnome.nautilus.window-state sidebar-width 180
 org.gnome.nautilus.window-state start-with-status-bar true
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-17 (152 days ago)

[Ads20000 (ads20000)]

I'm guessing this is unrelated to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/296 since that applies every time you open a folder with a lot of thumbnails, so I'm going to assume this is fixed, please change back to New if you can reproduce this bug on Ubuntu 18.04 or Cosmic.

[teo1978 (teo8976)]

Yes, it looks like it's most probably unrelated to the other bug you mention, but I fail to see how that leads you to conclude (or "assume") it is fixed.