4.7 Nautilus Slows the System

Problem  

Nautilus slows my system or freezes when searching for Trash on an NFS mounted volume.

Solution  

Perform the following actions to prevent Nautilus from searching for trash on a NFS file systems:

1. Edit the following file:

   /usr/share/gnome/nautilus/filesystem-attributes.xml

2. Set the following entry:

   filesystem name="nfs" _default_volume_name="NFS Network Volume" trash="no"

3. Run the following command to restart Nautilus: pkill nautilus