[Novalug] Problems with nautilus being slow to load

[Paul W. Frields]

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 07:59:29PM -0500, Bonnie Dalzell wrote:
> I have Ubuntu 9.04 - Jaunty
> 
> I set up a different set of icons from one of the fancy icon sets. Since 
> that was done I have found that nautilus file windows have been very 
> very slow to open on large directories. By slow I mean multiple minutes 
> when loading home. Also all icons on my desktop vanish while this is 
> happening.
> 
> Sometimes the icons do not come back until I do a restart.
> 
> In the mean time I mostly use System Commander for directory listings.

Is it possible this is due to the preview function?  You may want to
tune that using the preferences tool that controls file management.

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