Caja - slow folder refresh

[gordon]

@arQon

it's caja's own cache (or possibly gvfs - I don't remember the details)

It's GVFS.

@arQon

I can't seem to find the thing on this machine

It's under your home directory, specifically in ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata.

@arQon

I'm guessing the thumbnailing is the root of the problem though, so you should be fine once you disable that

@arvindpmate, and after disabling all thumbnailing, delete the directory ~/.thumbnails in your home directory. This will get rid of existing thumbnails. (I deleted mine recently and discovered there were 25,864 thumbnails in that directory taking up a total of 36 MB of disk space!)