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Aspirant

Nov 30, 2015

Deleting Large Folder Taking Hours!!

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? So I opened up the Web GUI and selected the folder and clicke...

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cpu8088

Virtuoso

Dec 01, 2015

sometimes windows does not show correct time remaining

reboot your nas and then navigate to the folder and delete it there

barkster28
Aspirant
Dec 01, 2015
thanks, but it has been deleting for 24 hours now so seems pretty close, it's deleting each file one by one. I stopped the deletion from windows, rebooted nas,logged into web interface and deleted the folder using web interface and still taking forever. I'm going to ssh into it next. This is rediculous.
- mdgm-ntgr
  NETGEAR Employee Retired
  Dec 01, 2015
  SSH is certainly the fastest way to do it, if you are comfortable with the implications of using SSH.
  - barkster28
    Aspirant
    Dec 01, 2015
    Yeah even after rebooting and using the web interface it never completed the deletion and was taking hours. I ssh'd into it an deleted the 211gb folder and another 40gb folder in under 10 mins for both. Who the hell had two days to delete files, freaking stupid.