Hi John. I can certainly understand your frustration that there's been no response for a long time. Unfortunately, I'm not a dev, so I won't be much help in terms of actually fixing the problem. I just came across the bug and was interested in whether it still existed as there have been many updates to Ubuntu since you reported your problem.
I think what might be useful to see on this particular issue are some exact steps somebody can take to reproduce the issue you described. For example, Step 1. Install Ubuntu with an ext3 file system # or may be create an ext3 filesystem on an already installed system Step 2. Create 70,000 small text files in a directory # if you had a particular method for creating the 70,000 1K text files, perhaps using a 'for' loop or similar - include this.... Step 3... and so on. That way whoever looks at the bug can at least verify and confirm the issue you've described. With easy to follow reproducer steps using a more recent version of Ubuntu, I'd imagine it would be easier for someone to make progress with the bug. FWIW, I was unable to reproduce this issue on a Trusty install but I use an ext4 fs and that, as you alluded to previously, may be a very important factor. Unfortunately, with my current set up I'm not able to test using ext3. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gedit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/761781 Title: Gedit takes many minutes to start if there are many files in directory To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/761781/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs