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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...
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.
SSH is certainly the fastest way to do it, if you are comfortable with the implications of using SSH.
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.
Too late for you to try it now, but I wonder if opening a Windows command promt window and using RMDIR /S /Q would have been almost as fast as going to SSH. 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. But the old DOS type commnds usually don't care.
Yeah too late but with the web gui taking forever litterally I doubt that would have been any faster. I would have thought he web gui would have been just as fast as SSH boy was I wrong
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