On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 12:35:08PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > The closest to that which I have seen is that the larger a directory > gets, the longer it takes to open a GTK File dialog. And it just > burns up the CPU. If there's more than 12000 files, the File dialog > will "never" open. > Wow. I've never had a single directory with 12000 files. What file dialog have you tried that does work? How do KDE file dialogs handle it? Doug.