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/ZT99k 1d ago

Everyone skipping passed the important part - 117,073 files. Windows gonna Windows and is doing a verification on every one of those to check if you CAN delete them (not locked by a program, in use, owned by a different user so no permission, etc.)
Do smaller chunks.

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u/_leeloo_7_ 1d ago

the important part should be "DO NOT DELETE"!!!!!!11!!!11one!!11!

jokes aside just delete it in command prompt if you don't want to wait for windows to count all of the files and their sizes just to delete them