Search in Nautilus is still slow

noise617

Hi,

I reported it before, but the recent updates did not improve the situation too much - search functionality is very slow in Nautilus. For example, if I search for a mp3 file in an artist's folder with several dozen album it will take a minute or two ot even longer to find the file(s). This happens all the time, this is not temporary slowness due to system busyness or something like that.

Have you, guys, encountered these problems? Is there a way to fix them?

If not Nau, what file manager do you use?

tomscharbach

If you are using Budgie, you might want to install to Nemo (now in the repository after today's update). I used Nemo for several months when evaluating Ubuntu Budgie 22.04 LTS, and it worked very well. If Nemo works well for you, you can uninstall Nautilus if you want to do so. Nemo will be the default Budgie file manager for Solus 4.4.

noise617

tomscharbach , thanks, I have installed Nemo.

noise617

Well, the same simple operation take Nemo two seconds or so. Must be something wrong with search in Nautilus after all.

tomscharbach

noise617 Well, the same simple operation take Nemo two seconds or so. Must be something wrong with search in Nautilus after all.

Nautilus seems to have a lot of problems in recent iterations, many of them upstream issues. I think that the Solus team made the right decision in adopting Nemo as default for Solus 4.4. Ubuntu Budgie made the switch to Nemo as default in 2019, and Nemo seems to be working well for UB users, with enough of a track record to make a reliable judgment. I hope Nemo works out for you.

Looking forward, you might want to look at the thread "Switching from Budgie Desktop View to Nemo Desktop".

Staudey

There are some improvements in the upcoming nautilus version (soon in the Unstable repo), but not sure if any of them relate to this issue.
Only possible candidate is "Stop blocking on the tracker connection", but I'd have to look at the issue/commits behind that to find out what exactly they're covering.

noise617

Off-topic - I noticed lots of glitches in Celluloid recently, as well. So that it can barely be used now.