When I use Nautilus (standard Ubuntu, all distributions up to 17.04), a network access to large smb shares is painfully slow. It takes not only seconds for the results to build (expected), but also going into a subdirectory and then back takes the same time.
This makes browsing the share very tedious.
I have noticed that the behaviour of PCManFM or PCManFM-Qt on LXQt / Lubuntu is different. The first access takes the same time, but afterwards, the results are cached and I can jump to subdirectories and back without delay. If I change something, I need to push F5 to update the directory, but browsing is smooth. Overall, a much better browsing experience.
Is there a way to make Nautilus also cache the directories and behave like PCManFM? I am baffled that this isn't standard behaviour anyway.
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