Nautilus says "Preparing" when it is emptying the trash and does not update its status until the Trash is done being emptied.

Bug #1853870 reported by Seija K.
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nautilus (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

When emptying the trash (I used the "Empty Deleted Items" button at the top of the file list in Nautilus) a dialog pops up with a progress bar at 0% saying "Preparing". It stays at 0% for the duration of the empty and then disappears when it's done instead of updating.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put items in the trash
2. Empty the trash by selecting "Empty"
3. Notice the progress bar is stuck at 0% saying "Preparing"

Expected Results:
Progress Bar updates as items are thrown away.

Actual Results:
Nautilus says "Preparing" until the trash is finished being emptied.

Description: Ubuntu 19.10
Release: 19.10

nautilus:
  Installed: 1:3.34.1-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:3.34.1-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.34.1-1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.34.1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-23.25-generic 5.3.7
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Nov 25 11:14:06 2019
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'sidebar-width' b'260'
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.preferences' b'default-folder-viewer' b"'list-view'"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-11-20 (4 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
mtime.conffile..etc.apport.crashdb.conf: 2019-11-24T17:17:29.098099
usr_lib_nautilus:

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Seija K. (rose128) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. Could you give some details on the content of the trash at the time you emptied it? Do you have enough data for it to take a while, is that on a local partition?

It's likely an upstream issue and would be good to report to them on https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Seija K. (rose128) wrote :

The only item in the trash was a source code folder of cmake. Nothing more. It was no more than 300 MB, and I had plenty of room left on my device. And yes, it is in the local partition.

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