Tab autocomplete takes a long time

[riksweeney]

About a week ago I ran a script which extracted all the frames from a movie. It dumped all the files into my home directory and I deleted all (180,000+) of them.

Now when I try to do autocomplete by pressing tab in my directory, the process will freeze for about 30 seconds or so before completing.

I guess it still thinks the files are there or there's some sort of caching going on. Is there anything I can do to reset this?

[ajgreeny]

I'm not sure if this is a result of a huge file database that is being searched, but try

sudo updatedb

in terminal, which will do exactly what it suggests in the name, and then try the tab auto-completion again.

[riksweeney]

I'm not sure if this is a result of a huge file database that is being searched, but try

sudo updatedb

in terminal, which will do exactly what it suggests in the name, and then try the tab auto-completion again.

Thanks, that did the trick!