home directory takes ages to display

[Alain Muls]

On Tuesday 21 April 2009 12:01:46 kubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
> > On Tuesday 21 April 2009 02:50:55 kubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >> 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?

Yes, Thanks, that was it!

bye/Alain