Dolphin taking excessive time to open home directory

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I am running KDE desktop with Plasma Wayland. Recent updates have resulted in occasional crashes of Dolphin but more troublesome is that if I open Dolphin I get a notice

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but it is taking more than a minute before the directory tree is displayed.
Is this a bug or a problem with my system?

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How many files in your home directory? How many directories?

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33 folders and 30 files in my home directory. No more than last week when Dolphin was working adequately if not well.

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Yeah, that doesn’t seem like much. Was there a specific recent update where it seemed to get worse? I’d probably start by looking at the update history to see if Dolphin or one of its dependencies was updated, and see what changed in that update.

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Try command line utilities like tree, du -hs, ls -lR that also have to read that directory tree to see if they are also slow.

If they are, install smartmontools to check if your disk has a hardware problem. Also check the journal for disk errors.

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Two very typical troubleshooting tests that are very easy, are to:

a. Create a new, never used, user account. Then, log out of your regular user account, then log in as the new user and do the same activities with Dolphin … any difference?

… and, or:

b. Logged in as your regular user account, execute Dolphin from the command line , then perform the same activities as usual … any Warnings or Errors at the command line output?

EDIT:

c. Log out as the regular user … login , but select KDE / X11, and NOT KDE / wayland … then execute the same Dolphin activitiy … any difference?

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This is expected behaviour when Dolphin tries to open a non existing location. Check your list of tabs and close all stale locations. Yo may try dolphin --new-window /home.

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Any external disk(s) mountpoint(s) inside your homedir?

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I am still researching this and I think Karl may have given me a clue. The only significant changes I have made have been how my nfs shares are handled and the problem may be because on of the servers is down. No access to machines at present but will check. Thanks for all the replies.

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Karl had it in one. I had changhed the way I set up nfs share which works fine until the server is down!!! Used not to happen but the change was intended to speed up booting, which it did but then slows Dolphin. Server now back up and all is well.

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Question: is the folder on an USB drive? Because in the last update the uas.ko module is removed / missing…