Have you checked wether indexing is active on the drive? I don't know that
this is the problem but it sounds like maybe you have some
allocation/pointer issues. Just a thought.
"Cynyster" <Cynyster@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Ok this has got to be one of the more annoying problems for me . Even more
> than
> the random folder view every time you enter a folder.
>
> I have a foler that collects a large number of small files for a program
> that
> I use.. Typically they are under 50k in size but often there can be
> close to
> 200,000 in a single folder.
>
> If I want to delete one it can take several minutes to delete it...
>
> It will sit at "preparing to delete" for what seems like forever.
>
> The more files in a folder the longer it takes...
>
> Now my computer is arguably top of the line it has an intel s3200 MB
> with a
> xeon quad core and 4 gigs of ram and terrabyte hard drives.
>
> It should not take 15 minutes to delete 1,000 of the 200,000 files,
>
> Additionally these files are on a second internal physical drive and
> should
> have nothing to do with the rest of the system.
>
> Oh and one other note. Mass deleting files from a command prompt works
> fine.
> so if I want to delete everything in the folder via a command prompt it
> works
> as expected but if I try via windows explorer it takes forever.
>
> Has M$ come out with a patch for this yet? I am on service pack 2 of
> vista
> ultimate and it has all the updates that were presented via the update
> utility.
>
> Thanks for any help
>
>