slow by opening local folder

[Daniel Défago]

Since the I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.1, Nautilus file browser are very slow to open and then to navigate trough the local folders. If I execute Nautilus with "sudo" command it's much faster. It's work also normaly with remote folder like sftp (ssh).

I try to disable the generating of the thumbnail, but still the same, and when I choice "Never" or "only local files it's take a very long time to save the option.

Some times it's so long that a window is appear and tell me that I have to wait until the folder will be open. It's a very significantly diffirence between the ubuntu 12.0

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.5.90.really.3.4.2-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Nov 16 08:09:41 2012
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'820x607+49+24'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'sidebar-width' b'221'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-11-02 (744 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-30 (16 days ago)

[Turbo (joel-avery)]

I have this same problem. This was a fresh install if the 32bit desktop on an atom chip.

I also see this message in the .xsession-errors file:

Nautilus-Share-Message: Called "net usershare info" but it failed: 'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error No such file or directory
Please ask your system administrator to enable user sharing.

I'm not running Samba, nor do I need to in my pure Linux NFS world.

I fixed the above by creating the directory it wanted, but things are still slow unless I start nautilus as root.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Danny Verbeek (dverbeek84)]

I have got te same experience. When i open nautilus with sudo its fast. but with a normal or admin user is is slow(even with a ssd).

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.5.90.really.3.4.2-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-22-generic
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat 19 Jan 2013 12:45:19 PM CET -0.627717 seconds
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Fresh install

[Daniel Défago (daniel-defagordi)]

Workaround: I installed the PCmanFM package :

sudo apt-get install pcmanfm
pcmanfm

this is a good alternative as Nautilus and he is very fast.

[Aaron Mahlebo (aaron-mahlebo)]

The issue was resolved after i upgraded to Nautilus 3.6. See instructions to install Nautilus 3.6 here: http://ubuntuguide.net/install-nautilus-3-6-in-ubuntu-12-10

[Daniel Défago (daniel-defagordi)]

Hi Aaron,

Thank you for your tip, it's working perfect now.

[Jaime (jcoh)]

Nautilus 3.6 is so much faster. This issue must be resolved for all Ubuntu 12.10 users. Because file browsing is an essential part of the OS interface, this should be attributed a very high priority.

[=KK= (sevkme)]

yes, for all Ubuntu 12.10 users.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The comments suggest it was fixed in newer nautilus versions