On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 19:25 -0400, fred smith wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:01:03PM +1030, Tim wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 23:01 -0700, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > Nautilus takes forever to list these directories and at times > > > I just want to look for a particular file by string in the name. Is > > > there a fast graphic tool for this? Then when I find the desired > > > file, I typically open it in Firefox. > > > > Nautilus seems to sniff the files to discover their types, and a plug-in > > tries to generate a thumbnail image for the file. Both these features > > are painfully slow with moderately largish directories. You can turn > > off the inclusion of the filetype in the list details, but not the image > > generation. Perhaps the plug-in could be manually replaced with > > something which worked faster, or instantly "did nothing." > > > > I've used the emelFM2 file manager as an alternative, it doesn't show > > thumbnails of files. And it does let you do some wildcarding to > > show/hide files in the lister gadget. > > I think it's most likely not that nautilus, etc., are slow in > large directories, it is that large directories take a long time > to search for files, making any action on those directories much > slower than normal. A "problem" of long-standing on pretty much > all Unix(-ish) file systems (and I'm not saying it won't happen on > other systems, I don't really know, but suspect it does.) If that were so, 'ls' would take as long as Nautilus (or Dolphin or whatever) to list a large directory. I don't have any huge directories to test, but I'm sceptical. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
