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Article #6Re: Slow file deletion
From: Philip Herlihy
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:14
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:14
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Anthony R. Gold wrote: > I've just started with a new laptop - much like others except a bit more > memory (2GB) and faster HDD (7.2k SATA) under XP and one behaviour is > mystifying me - deleting very large files is very slow. By very large I > mean over 10GB(*) and by slow I mean over 15 minutes. No error messages, > nothing locked AFAICT, just mysteriously very very slow. BTW the same type > of deletion is instantaneous when done in safe mode. And also I get the > same behaviours (fast under safe mode and slow under normal XP) whether > deleting large files from the local SATA drive or from USB attached drives. > > * I need to do this as I make successive backups using PQ DriveImage or > Ghost 10 and old archives need to be removed to make space for newer ones. > > Anyone got any ideas? > > Tony Not running a search facility (eg Google desktop) are you? Phil, London
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