It looks like it's looking for trash directories on your drive. Do you feel like forwarding that bug to bugzilla.gnome? People knowing that code will probably have better idea, especially than it's not happening for everybody (sftp works fine on my desktop by example). Having a backtrace with nautilus-dbg and libgnomevfs2-0-dbg installed could be nice too
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: Needs Info => Unconfirmed -- 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