If the thumbnail generation is to blame for the slowness, then it should work faster after disabling the thumbnail bar I would assume. Can you confirm that?
Furthermore, I suggest that you forward this bug to the Xfce bug tracker, so that the upstream developers can look into this and your proposed solution. https://bugzilla.xfce.org/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1713432 Title: Ristretto crawls to a halt on USB1.1 file systems To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ristretto/+bug/1713432/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
