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Why does Nautilus slow down every time I delete file?

rated 0 times [ 0] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 2025 / 3 Years ago, thu, september 2, 2021, 1:08:38

I am using Gnome Classic in Ubuntu 14.10, with Compiz effects.

Whenever I delete a file in a Nautilus window, the window becomes unresponsive, and goes grey for a few seconds. Then, it returns. It's a very annoying slowdown for such a simple operation.

So far as I can tell, this only happens when deleting files, not with any other operation.

Why is this happening, and, far more importantly, how do I get it so that file deletion is more or less instantaneous, as it has been up until recently. This change may have happened after upgrading to 14.10. I can't be sure, but that's roughly when I started noticing.

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answered 3 Years ago steaocyte · Accepted Answer

I determined that the problem in my case was that a Virtual Machine was trying to access the same directory while I was using it, causing some kind of slow down. If I don't use the directory when the Virtual Machine is running, or don't have the Virtual Machine on when accessing the directory, there is no slow down.