Posted June 11, 200816 yr I needed to delete about 2.7 GB of 500,000 files yesterday and it seemed that it was taking far too long. I was deleting these files using the command prompt. I opened another command prompt to measure the progress by seeing how much free space became available every minute. It was only about 2 MB, thus the system was only deleting about 370 files per minute. At this rate it would take more than 22 hours to complete. I ended up reformatting the drive because this would take only 25 minutes. Does anyone have any idea whether or not deleting 500,000 files of an average of 5 KB each should take more than 22 hours on a fast quad- core sata drive machine? What could have been going on?
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