[Bug 55278] Nautilus crashes on folder with many thousands of files

jdo jdorsman2004 at hotmail.com
Sat Aug 5 09:48:43 UTC 2006


Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: nautilus

Nautilus shows a message that there are too many file to show them all,
if a folder contains more then 10000 files. But if I continue to work on
that folder (selecting them all with Ctrl+A, deselecting a few, trying
to delete) nautilus freezes and crashes. During the freeze, it does not
use any CPU time, but there is no response and no graphic update.

I might depend on the available memory, since it takes sometimes a
minute before it crashes. And while I am working in that folder, the
total number of files on het bottom-left is still counting. The folder
was in icon-view.

After reducing the number of files to 10000, I still got the message
(too many files to show them all), but Nautilus did not crash. And I
could easily delete them in two steps (in two steps, because I didn't
see them all).

Ubuntu: Dapper (upgrade from Breezy), with all updates.
CPU: AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1400
Memory: 512MB
Kernel: K7
Nautilus: 2.14.3

jdo

** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Untriaged
         Status: Unconfirmed

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Nautilus crashes on folder with many thousands of files
https://launchpad.net/bugs/55278




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