Since I upgraded to fedora 3, I noticed that nautilus seems to have trouble assigning the proper icon to media files. This happened with fedora 2 also, but to a much lesser degree. I have a directory with over 100 episodes of...(I better not say, I'll be sued by one industry or another)... and nautilus crashes every time I try to open this directory. The files are a mix of avi's and rm's so, and it seems like it locks as its loading the icons. I never had this problem with fedora 2. This actually locks up the entire system, and I had to do a dirty shut down 2 of the 3 times I opened the folder.

Has anyone else noticed this? Any fixes?

Change to list view - that should prevent generation of previews (what I think the problem is)
Alternatively - go to the nautilus preferences and go to the preview tab and turn off the preview.

Actually it's already in list view. When the directory opens initially, the icons on the left are these white circles or something, and it seems like nautilus is replacing them with the appropriate mpeg/avi/rm icons. The only problem is theres 100+ files so (unlike the smaller directories) it freezes up during this process.

Also, this only happens with video files. My mp3 directories open fine. I noticed that nautilus has a hard time with the icons in other video directories, but since they're much smaller it doesn't crash.

I know, this is a strange one.

Thanks anyway though!

It worked! Thanks a lot!