I had a similar situation after the 11.04 update. But starting nautilus from terminal as root (gksudo nautilus...) I found these messages:
vittorio@IBMT410UB:/usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-2.0$ gksudo nautilus Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension Initializing nautilus-gdu extension Initializing nautilus-dropbox 0.6.7 I removed the dropbox extension and now nautilus regained its original speed..... I hope it could be helpful to someone. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/776781 Title: Nautilus is EXTREMELY SLOW after fresh install To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/776781/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs