caja (or perhaps something else) very slow.

[mgnut57]

I am using MATE for my desktop environment.

Dialogs that elaborate the entries in directories seem to be very slow. Just today, I was trying to get some files off my phone and I could easily navigate to the directory that contains the various picture files, but not select any because caja hung on elaborating the files. Other dialogs that open directories appear to be equally slow.

Any ideas what is going on? How to resolve it?

Also, when is a newer release of MATE going to make it into portage? 1.20 was release 6 months ago.

[bunder]

I've been running an overlay with 1.20, you're free to use it.

As for your caja question, what do you mean by elaborating? If you mean generating the file previews, you can turn that off in the preferences under the preview tab.
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[mgnut57]