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Bug 553941 - nautilus loads the contents of a directory and sorts them at the same time makes it slow and unstable
nautilus loads the contents of a directory and sorts them at the same time ma...
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.22.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-09-26 13:23 UTC by Amr Hassan
Modified: 2014-08-25 18:25 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22



Description Amr Hassan 2008-09-26 13:23:13 UTC
When opening a directory full of images which are sorted by anything other than "manually" (especially "By Modification Date" which seems to be the worst case) nautilus takes a very long time in the loading process because it starts sorting the files before it has fully loaded the file list and the thumbnails.

during the loading process, icons (thumbnails) move around in every direction as new files keep popping up in the middle of the file list which makes nautilus act crazy and it becomes unusable for about a minute or so..

i'm testing on an images directory that contains 1271 images and 79 subdirectories..
opening the same directory on the "Manually" arrangement option seems to take about 3 seconds.. any other option makes it take a significantly longer time to complete the process..

Intel P4 3.0GHz, 1GB of RAM, Ubuntu 8.04 and Nautilus 2.22.3
Comment 1 Marco Lazzaroni 2008-11-18 09:30:15 UTC
I confirm this problem; it is quite embarassing. If it helps, I'll supply a video of this issue.
Comment 2 William Jon McCann 2012-08-14 03:08:29 UTC
I am not seeing this. Is it still an issue?
Comment 3 André Klapper 2014-08-25 18:25:29 UTC
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for.
Thanks!