Nautilus properties window "Content" number continuously counting

[komputes]

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/363

1. Press Ctrl H in your home directory
2. Selected all files inclusing hidden files
3. Right-click > Properties

Result:
Size keeps shifting (does not end counting). Can't find out the size of the selected files/folders.

Expected:
Ends counting with the size of the selected files/folders.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-4.8-generic 3.8.0-rc6
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-4-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Feb 22 00:59:57 2013
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'1290x831+1+52'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'sidebar-width' b'219'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-31 (53 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20121230)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
mtime.conffile..etc.xdg.autostart.nautilus.autostart.desktop: 2013-01-01T18:32:27.165937

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Walter Ribeiro (wribeirojr)]

Importance low?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Because it's not an essential feature and it's happening to very few users

[Samuel Santos (tenaim)]

Still happening on 15.04.

[Gary (dw2s)]

Has this been fixed, because I keep my machines up-to-date and it is still happening. It is really frustrating.

[Anthony (danthonyd)]

I have several, various machines using Ubuntu at different stages for over two years, and they all have had this problem. If a 'Report System Problem' pop-up occurred there would be more reports, but it loops instead of crashing or outputting an error: typically you eventually click "close" and it quits like nothing happened.
This loop occurs with large NTFS file systems containing many files ans subdirectories, say 20GB+ and 20,000+ files.
I can sometimes get around it by accessing the parent directory properties, but that includes "system volume information" and recycling and any other unwanted directories. Right-clicking properties is much simpler than using the command line so I hope this gets fixed.

[Víctor Adrián de la Cruz Serrano (adriandcs)]

Still happening in 16.04.

[Víctor Adrián de la Cruz Serrano (adriandcs)]

And, to tell the truth it's been a long time issue for me, but never occurred to me to google it until today.

I'm a developer and I have this happening in project folders that have lots of files. How many files do you ask? That's what I'd like to know.

[yashar (yasharnesabian)]

same problem on Ubuntu 17.04

[oddentity (tetlow-dan)]

Still a problem with stock Ubuntu 17.10.

Contrary to suggestions in the gnome bug report, I see this problem even when none of the directories are or contain files that are symlinks.

[[e-mail] (markackerman8)]

same problem in 18.10 - ridiculous

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Issue now being dealt with on Gitlab:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/363