Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: How to delete a mass of files on a Windows drive

[Matt]

Well, I gave it about 4 hours to complete a del *.* and it didn't do 
it.  This is a MS SMTP Badmail directory and I'm only guessing at the 
number of actual files because I can't see into that directory.  I 
figured out the naming convention, and by doing a del *1.bad ought to 
target exactly 1/48th of the files if I am correct (3 different 
extensions and hex naming convention)...but that took 4 minutes to 
execute...BUT IT WORKED!  The sad thing is that L0pht could crack 
virtually every password on a server in the time it takes to simply 
delete a directory full of files :(   RAID would have really helped though.

Sorry Goran, no native deltree in Windows (to my knowledge at least), 
but that might have been a good way around it if it didn't have to 
enumerate the files, which I think is essentially the same thing as a 
*.* within a single directory tree.

I think it's time to see if I can configure MS SMTP on this server not 
to store Badmail (it's an ORF gateway).  Hey Scott, is Declude Gateway 
1.0 going to get released?

:)
Matt

R. Scott Perry wrote:

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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