Working with large directories

[Tim]

On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 23:01 -0700, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Nautilus takes forever to list these directories and at times 
> I just want to look for a particular file by string in the name.  Is 
> there a fast graphic tool for this?  Then when I find the desired
> file, I typically open it in Firefox.

Nautilus seems to sniff the files to discover their types, and a plug-in
tries to generate a thumbnail image for the file.  Both these features
are painfully slow with moderately largish directories.  You can turn
off the inclusion of the filetype in the list details, but not the image
generation.  Perhaps the plug-in could be manually replaced with
something which worked faster, or instantly "did nothing."

I've used the emelFM2 file manager as an alternative, it doesn't show
thumbnails of files.  And it does let you do some wildcarding to
show/hide files in the lister gadget.

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