Re: nautilus limits ?

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> After lots of CDROM spinning, nautilus gave me a warning that
> /mnt/cdrom contains too many files for nautilus to handle.
> 
> The cdrom in question contains about 4500 .jpg's.  I'm curious - what is 
> the limit for nautilus to handle and what exactly is the limiting factor ?

At the moment it's just a hard coded limit. It was once introduced to 
avoid nautilus becomming huge and slow when reading e.g. /dev. Since we're 
better these days maybe we should up bump this limit to 10000 or so.

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