Moving files nautilus extremely slow

[Kim d'Audretsch]

When I move a lot of files from (ex. two hundred images) from one folder to another on the same harddrive, I get a message "Preparing to move x files"and it takes a long time to move them. The filesystem is btrfs (raid 1). The folder is linked to another folder because my main system hdd is a ssd drive. (Ex. /home/data/Pictures ~/username/Pictures/ ) All the userdata subfolders are stored on btrfs hdd (ex. /home/username/Downloads etc..) Moving files via commandline is instant.

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial

ii libnautilus-extension1a:amd64 1:3.18.4.is.3.14.3-0ubuntu4 amd64 libraries for nautilus components - runtime version
ii nautilus 1:3.18.4.is.3.14.3-0ubuntu4 amd64 file manager and graphical shell for GNOME
ii nautilus-data 1:3.18.4.is.3.14.3-0ubuntu4 all data files for nautilus
ii nautilus-sendto 3.8.2-1ubuntu1 amd64 integrates Evolution and Pidgin into the Nautilus file manager
ii nautilus-share 0.7.3-2ubuntu1 amd64 Nautilus extension to share folder using Samba

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Nicolas_Raoul (nicolas-raoul)]

Similar to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1133477

[Andreas Mueller (t3kcit)]

And

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/928515
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1571540
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1574598

There is a 4 year old "confirmed" bug on this, but no fix in sight?

[Hao Chen (haochris)]

I got more than 2000 file to move and I felt like ....

[pchaivaro (pchaivaro)]

My laptop transfer file within ssd drive the transfers rate is 23.6 kB/sec.
Painfully slow...

[sillyxone (sillyxone)]

Not sure what happened or whoever did the magic, but the problem is gone on Ubuntu 16.04, somewhere between the end of August and the first two weeks of September. Moving images are as fast as it used to be (and should be). I tested moving 1,000+ JPG files several times and it happened instantly. It used to show "Preparing to move files ..." for a few minutes, even with just 100 image files.

Anyway, would be great if a dev can drop an explanation. Otherwise, people please test/verify and we can close this ticket then.

[Kim d'Audretsch (kimda)]

It seems that they fixed the bug. I just moved 450 images from one folder to another and it was really fast. Also would like to know what was causing this issue.

[Chaim Eliyah (chaimeliyah)]

I am seeing it was fixed recently but Nautilus is still copying files very slowly from SSD to SSD on a two-channel PCI-e system (although admittedly, one side is using the SATA adapter) with 16GB DDR3, most of it available. It's only using 0.9GB. Regardless wire-to-wire I should never get these speeds. It's annoying. Is that the same issue? How do I get the fix? Here is my release number...

dev:/srv/samba$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial