elementary / elementary/files

Frequent terminat/wait message on large amount items

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Description

### What Happened?

I thought there was an issue long outstanding but seems I cannot find it. If I'm mistaken then plase delete this report.

When I want to browse inside a folder with 10.000+ files, the files apps hangs and shows me the wait or terminate message when I leave it in the background. This happens a lot of times.

### Steps to Reproduce

Open files and browse a folder (on USB 3 drive or local SSD) and frequently terminate/wait message are displayed. After clicking wait a few times the folder contents eventually shows (after reading has long completed, I thinks it's the sorting mechanisme).
This also occurs for me on an non SSD drive on USB 3 and even not opening the folder but just the fist mount attempt.

### Expected Behavior

Like other filemanagers (I tested several like pcmanfm from apt) just display the contents after a while (maybe show something of a progress bar?) without wait/terminate messages

### OS Version

8.x (Circe)

### Session Type

Secure Session (Wayland)

### Software Version

Latest release (I have run all updates)

### Log Output

```shell

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### Hardware Info

Quad-Core Intel® Core(TM) i5-4570R CPU @ 2.70GHz
Intel® Iris® Pro Graphics 5200 (open source drivers provided by eOS)
No flatpak/snaps (besides the standard ones)

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