Comment 0 for bug 1133477

With Nautilus, I navigated to a folder that contained about 2,000 gif files.
I selected all of them
I cut with Ctrl+X
I navigated to another folder
I pasted with Ctrl+V

=> A popup window appeared saying "Preparing to move N files", and it got stuck there forever.
Nautilus stopped responding. I waited half an hour, then I had to kill it.

Actually some of the files were moved. Which is the worst thing that could happen.

I tried again with the remaining files and it happened again!! It's systematic!!!!!!

I suspect it has to do with displaying the previews of a big number of files. Nautilus becomes completely unmanageable whenever you open folders with lots of files. Maximum priority should be given to the UI and actual operations; displaying of the previews should be done in the background and should never, ever slow down user operations the slightest bit. Seems pretty obvious.

Also note that 2000 is not even that much. Actually it's very few files.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.5.90.really.3.4.2-0ubuntu4.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-25.38-generic 3.5.7.4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-25-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Feb 26 18:23:52 2013
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'1312x713+64+71'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'sidebar-width' b'180'
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'start-with-status-bar' b'true'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-06-23 (979 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2013-01-13 (44 days ago)