On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:01:03PM +1030, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 23:01 -0700, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > Nautilus takes forever to list these directories and at times > > I just want to look for a particular file by string in the name. Is > > there a fast graphic tool for this? Then when I find the desired > > file, I typically open it in Firefox. > > Nautilus seems to sniff the files to discover their types, and a plug-in > tries to generate a thumbnail image for the file. Both these features > are painfully slow with moderately largish directories. You can turn > off the inclusion of the filetype in the list details, but not the image > generation. Perhaps the plug-in could be manually replaced with > something which worked faster, or instantly "did nothing." > > I've used the emelFM2 file manager as an alternative, it doesn't show > thumbnails of files. And it does let you do some wildcarding to > show/hide files in the lister gadget.
I think it's most likely not that nautilus, etc., are slow in large directories, it is that large directories take a long time to search for files, making any action on those directories much slower than normal. A "problem" of long-standing on pretty much all Unix(-ish) file systems (and I'm not saying it won't happen on other systems, I don't really know, but suspect it does.) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .---- Fred Smith / ( /__ ,__. __ __ / __ : / / / / /__) / / /__) .+' Home: [email protected] / / (__ (___ (__(_ (___ / :__ 781-438-5471 -------------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 --------------------------------- -- users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
