Nautilus too slow

**sergiodlc** · May 10th, 2011

After typing in a terminal the command

Code:

rm -r ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata

Problem gone! I found the solution here.

I read in another thread that this latency problems could be related with Ubuntu One. Do you have Ubuntu One installed?

**loopduplicate** · June 19th, 2011

The link above should point to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...70#post9006570

**outleradam** · February 11th, 2012

I was having this problem too!
Before doing this, I found it quicker to launch sudo nautilus than to just launch nautilus... I'd have to change permissions of any files manually...

This worked....

Originally Posted by Rytron

Consider deleting:

Code:

.gnome
.gnome2
.gconf
.gconfd
.metacity

This will reset GNOME to its default but it did solve the slow opening of folders.

All i had to do was remove ~/.gnome2 and ~/.metacity...

Code:

rm -Rf ~/.gnome2
rm -Rf ~/.metacity

Then everything just worked fine.. No more freezing on the Ubuntu One folder and no more waiting 5 minutes for nautilus to launch.

In the future, is there a way to tell what process is holding things up?

**Rytron** · February 12th, 2012

Originally Posted by outleradam

...I found it quicker to launch sudo nautilus than to just launch nautilus

Only run sudo nautilus when you need to. For normal use just run nautilus.

**SeQueNceR** · November 9th, 2012

This Fixed My Problem

THANKS

Originally Posted by anoop999

I read on another thread that this may be a problem with appmenu-gtk. I fixed the problem of slow nautilus by uninstalling this package and restarting nautilus.