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[John Lea <501997@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Tags added: udp

** Changed in: ayatana-design
       Status: Fix Committed => Triaged

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Title:
  Nautilus loses its place after you create a new folder

Status in Ayatana Design:
  Triaged
Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
  Invalid
Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  If you create a folder in Nautilus, it's supposed to highlight the
  name so you can type in the name of the new folder. However, the more
  files in a directory, the longer this process takes. With something
  like 1,000 files in a directory, it takes a very long time, and the
  behaviour is not optimal if you start typing the name of the folder
  too soon. This means that if I create a new folder that I want to call
  XYZ, the following often occurs:

  (1) I select File -> Create Folder
  (2) Nautilus starts slowly refreshing my big folder
  (3) Before Nautilus highlights the folder called "untitled folder", I type "XYZ"
  (4) Nautilus stops refreshing my folder and assumes that I'm looking for an existing file or folder entitled XYZ, so it highlights the first file in my directory that starts with XYZ (e.g. "XYZfile.txt").

  In order to recover, I have to hit F5, wait for the folder to refresh,
  find "untitled folder", select "Edit -> Rename" and then type XYZ.

  The preferred behaviour would be that Nautilus assumes that any
  characters typed after "Create Folder" are the name of the new folder,
  not the search criteria within the folder. If that is not possible,
  then "Create Folder" should display a pop-up window that prompts for
  the name of the folder to be created.

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