Deleting Large Folder Taking Hours!!

Question

I'm trying to delete 211 gb folder off my ready nas and when I do it through windwos it says Time remaining "more than 1 day" seriously?&nbsp; So I opened up the Web GUI and selected the folder and clicked delete and the page has been sitting there for over an hour with the activity wheel spinning.&nbsp; Is this typical? This is crazy.

cpu8088 · Answer

sometimes windows does not show correct time remaining&nbsp;reboot your nas and then navigate to the folder and delete it there&nbsp;

barkster28 · Answer

thanks, but it has been deleting for 24 hours now so seems pretty close, it's deleting each file one by one. &nbsp;I stopped the deletion from windows, rebooted nas,logged into web interface and deleted the folder using web interface and still taking forever. &nbsp;I'm going to ssh into it next. &nbsp;This is rediculous. &nbsp;

mdgm-ntgr · Answer

SSH is certainly the fastest way to do it, if you are comfortable with the implications of using SSH.

barkster28 · Answer

Yeah even after rebooting and using the web interface it never completed the deletion and was taking hours.&nbsp; I ssh'd into it an deleted the 211gb folder and another 40gb folder in under 10 mins for both.&nbsp; Who the hell had two days to delete files, freaking stupid.

Sandshark · Answer

Too late for you to try it now, but I wonder if opening a Windows command&nbsp;promt window and using RMDIR /S /Q would have been almost as fast as going to SSH.&nbsp; Windows likes to keep track of what is happening, and all of that statusing is one thing that can take a lot of extra time.&nbsp; But the old DOS type commnds usually don't care.

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