hanes Posted September 12, 2005 Report Share Posted September 12, 2005 (edited) I have a alaptop that dual boots (I keep the windows partition around but barely ever use it...). I use it at work and I hook into a novell directory. Im a teacher and a directory I often use is called "STUDENTS", iin it there are 1500 other directories, these are the students personal files. If i look in this directory with konqueror, konqueror crashes. If I look in it with Nautilus (under gnome) nautilus is slow... and eventually crashes. If I look in it with Windows Explorer, it works suprisingly fast. I'm not complaining, or even saying windows is better (I would hate to work in windows, but at work i dont seem to have a lot of choice.. i work in this directory everyday). But I would like to ask, if anyone else has noticed stuff like this? On all my linux computers (i have a few) I cannot seem to find a file manager that comes even close to windows explorer.... Any comments/solutions? PS please dont say just do an ls under command line (which by the way command line works fine in this directory) Edited September 12, 2005 by hanes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted September 12, 2005 Report Share Posted September 12, 2005 Have you tried alternative lightweight solutions like rox already? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hanes Posted September 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2005 I have tried ROX, its a bit faster. I dont like it because I can't have a tree view (you know like showing all the folders hierarchly...Is this even possible with rox?..) Every other file manager I've tried is missing something... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 13, 2005 Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 Have you applied updates to your system, just in case there is an issue that might have been resolved? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted September 13, 2005 Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 Dunno if Rox supports file tree view. Long time ago since I used it...Midnight commander does. but it is not as pretty... This link might be interesting for you http://applications.linux.com/applications...l?tid=13&tid=49 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPanic Posted September 13, 2005 Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 Endeavour2 (Endeavour Mark II) looks quite similar to explorer, is really fast and has lots of functions... Some more than MS EX, some less... Find it at http://wolfpack.twu.net/Endeavour2/ (I just used easy urpmi... dont really know which source...) Cya. Panic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted September 13, 2005 Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 See also if a file-manager named "evidence" is in urpmi. If it is, it may be worth looking at. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hanes Posted September 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2005 Endeavour worked... What else can I say? This isnt a little thing, the KDE team (or Konqueror team) really needs to look at this. Nothing makes an os feel worse then a crappy/slow file manager. Oh well, I guess Ill use Endeavour for now! Thanks for the tips Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted September 20, 2005 Report Share Posted September 20, 2005 Try turning off or down stuff in nautilus's preferences Preview and Display tabs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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