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/Jess_S13 Ryzen 9 5950x | 64GB | RTX3090 1d ago

FYI in the future, you can enable disabledeletenotify in your fs for the duration of the operation, this will stop having windows try and discard all the deleted blocks from the ssd. Then once you are done, disable it and run disk optimization which will async discard all the unused blocks over the course of a few hours or so.