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Seaglaze
Aspirant
Nov 17, 2016
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Deleting large numbers of files/folders (OS 6.6.0)

Hello, I have had an incremental replicate job running daily for around a year and am now looking to delete all those files There are a lot of small folders and files on the source (several hundred...
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  • JennC's avatar
    JennC
    Nov 17, 2016

    Hello Seaglaze,

     

    I would delete the share instead to simply delete the files quickly.

     

    Welcome to the community!

     

    Regards,

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Seaglaze
Aspirant
Nov 18, 2016

 

Thanks, that seems to be doing the trick

I deleted the share and the space usage has immediately started dropping slowly but surely

 

Looks like it should finish today if the current rate is representative

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JennC
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Nov 18, 2016

Hello Seaglaze,

 

I'm glad it solves your concern.

 

Please feel free to post any suggestions, comments and questions. We appreciate your contribution to the community.

 

Regards,

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