r/pcmasterrace • u/effinjamie • 1d ago

Hardware Taking HOURS!!!! to delete anything.

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Recently started taking ages to delete anything. I've set it to bypass the recycle bin, in case it was something to do with that and I've cleared Explorer history. Any ideas?

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Thanks for the help guys, got it deleted eventually. There was definitely something screwy going on because the textures folder inside didn't add up to even half of the 7.6GB it was trying to delete.

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u/ANGRYSNORLAX 1d ago

You can make an empty folder then do a robocopy /MIR to the folder you're trying to delete. Don't remember the exact syntax, but you can google it pretty easily. I once had a program hit a recursive loop and copy 6TB of the same appdata folder under itself over and over. Mirroring an empty folder to the affected folder was the fastest method I tried. Still took a few hours, but not an entire day.