Thanks for your bug. Do you have the issue using sftp from a command line? Are network copies slow too? Could you get a backtrace for nautilus while it's hanging, you can get it by doing that: gdb -p $(pidof nautilus) (gdb) continue ... get it hanging, press Ctrl-C to gdb (gdb) thread apply all bt
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info -- SFTP is horrendously slow in Nautilus. https://launchpad.net/bugs/54306 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs