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rapt
Asked: 2014-12-21 09:43:36 +0800 CST

Whenever I open my home (~) folder with nautilus, there is an endless loading

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Ubuntu 14.04. Kernel 3.13.1-031301-generic.

If I change to another folder the endless loading (*) from hard drive stops.

I don't have much in that folder.

Any idea what might cause that, or how I can investigate the cause?

Thanks!

  • P.S. I don't see in the bottom right corner the "loading...", but there is an endless access to the hard drive.
14.04

1 Answers

  1. In this case in the logs, no news is good news. If there were errors that could mean the disk or filesystem was going bad.

    I saw a bug report about a "cleaner" program that would write thousands of files, that caused Nautilus to never "load" the folder either, but if there's not many files (looking in terminal) that's not it...

    Maybe a weird corrupted file in the folder, Nautilus keeps trying to read to get a thumbnail or something? Try moving some files to another directory, check if Nautilus works in both, move some more... find the bad one? Or see if the folder works with no files in it?

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