You can consider this a work-around, but it is more than that to me. Due to this bug not being resolved, I'm no longer using Nautilus
I'm now using thunar, which is not only faster for viewing the properties of a file or folder, it is also faster than Nautilus on every single task you'd do in Nautilus. I'm especially impressed with how fast it views network folders compared to Nautilus. sudo apt-get install thunar -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1250532 Title: Very Slow to Show Properties of a File (window dims out) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/1250532/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs