Matt,
What about a DELTREE command? You would do it from the directory above
and so you should not even have to go into the directory in question.
Not sure how well or poorly it would perform.
Goran Jovanovic
The LAN Shoppe
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> Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: How to delete a mass of files on a
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> 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.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
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