home directory takes ages to display

[marc]

Alain Muls said:

> On Tuesday 21 April 2009 02:50:55 kubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com
> wrote:
>> > Hi All
>> >
>> > My home directory takes ages to display in any application, eg
>> > dolphin, konqueror, konsole (using eg ls ~/) while all other
>> > directories display their contents at once (eg ls ~/qt/).
>> >
>> > What could be the cause?
>>
>> Number or size of files?
> 
> 154, hidden files/dir included.
> 
> 1.7G when run by du -sh
> 
> 
>> Does this happen when you ls the directory?
> 
> yes, or when I try to open the home directory in any file browser (eg
> Dolphin, Emacs dired mode,...)
> 

You don't happen to have a symlink in there to a remote location?

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Best,
Marc