I'm kind of befuddled with this one, but there is a directory on a certain machine that I estimate has about 50,000 or more files on an IDE hard drive and Windows 2003 will hang in Explorer when you try to delete or open the directory from that interface, and I also tried the command window and the DEL command with no luck either. I get a feeling that it is timing out while enumerating the files and not even starting to delete them. I tried searching for an answer on Google but couldn't figure out a good phrase to match this condition. Any help would be appreciated.
You might want to try going to a command prompt and typing "del a*.*", "del b*.*", etc., until you have it down to a manageable size. I can't guarantee that will work -- but I've encountered even larger directories (on Windows 2000, I believe) and doing a directly listing from a command prompt would take forever (almost literally -- perhaps 30 minutes, so be patient!), but doing "dir a*" type commands would be reasonably quick (seconds).
-Scott
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