Bug 1321684

Summary:	Moving many (~100) files takes many minutes
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Gareth Jones <gareth.k.jones>
Component:	nautilus	Assignee:	Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	ccecchi, fschwarz, jeremy9856, LailahFSF, mclasen
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Description Gareth Jones 2016-03-28 22:02:33 UTC

Description of problem:  When moving many files (not that many, 100 is often enough) by drag-and-drop, Nautilus slows, taking many minutes to move the files.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):  Nautilus 3.18.5 (and all tested prior versions in F23).


How reproducible:  ~75%


Steps to Reproduce:
1) Create a large number of files.
2) Select them in Nautilus.
3) Drag them into another directory (on the same volume).


Actual results:  Usually (but not always!), Nautilus will appear to freeze, with the user interface partially responsive.  Some files may be jerkily moved before this occurs.  Sometimes the move eventually completes after a few minutes (maybe always if one waits long enough).  There is a video linked in the GNOME bug report.


Expected results:  Near instantaneous move.


Additional info:  Monitoring the directories (e.g. ls in a terminal) confirms that the files are being moved at the rate Nautilus shows in its windows: this isn’t just a user interface lag.

Comment 1 Sylvia Sánchez 2016-11-05 12:36:57 UTC

I don't expect "near instantaneous move" as my laptop isn't that fast, but it does takes too much time (in the best of cases) or directly freezes when moving many items at a time. 
Sometimes, rarely, Nautilus seems to freeze but minutes later shows a notification indicating the task is completed.

Besides, this is the related bug in Gnome:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757747

Thanks.

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Comment 3 Felix Schwarz 2016-12-01 09:10:17 UTC

This is really an upstream issue (as Sylvia Sánchez pointed out correctly). However it seems as if it might get fixed for GNOME 3.24 (which is likely to end up in Fedora 26). Keeping the issue open to provide easier tracking for Fedora users.

Comment 4 jeremy9856 2016-12-12 17:17:54 UTC

The bug is fixed upstream. It will be great if Nautilus can be updated to 3.22.2 and gvfs to 1.31.3 at least for Fedora 25.

Thanks !