I'm guessing this is unrelated to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/296 since that applies every time you open a folder with a lot of thumbnails, so I'm going to assume this is fixed, please change back to New if you can reproduce this bug on Ubuntu 18.04 or Cosmic.
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067520 Title: takes ages to show contents of some folders with very few files To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1067520/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs