this is a work around and not the answer but many people arent happy with nautilus
some alternatives are konqueror or gentoo I myself prefer gentoo ( not the linux distro, the file browser )
I'd vote for Krusader or Gnome Commander, myself. Even before switching to Openbox from GNOME, I used a different file manager than nautilus. It's really kinda useless, imo.
This won't so much help if the problem is I/O related in some way (all file managers are using the same I/O backend), but it is something to both consider, and to triangulate whether the problem is actually system-related, or specific to Nautilus.
HTH, Holly
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