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Title: What is gvfsd-metadata?
ID: /2019/12/13/What-is-gvfsd-metadata_
Created: December 13, 2019    Edited:  December 13, 2019
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gvfsd-metadata is used by nautilus and other gnome utilities. What is happening to you could be this problem:

Why gvfsd-metadata process is hogging 100% of a single core for a long time

The solution:

pkill gvfsd-metadata 
rm -rf .local/share/gvfs-metadata