Extremely slow file deletion - a known bug?
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I run Start/Search and search for "name:small", using all the default search
settings (Location is "Indexed Locations" and "Include non-indexed, hidden,
and system files" is not checked.
Results come up with 242 items, 1.41 MB.
About 10% of the results are directories named "small", and the rest are
files with names beginning with "small".
I select all, and choose delete.
Several minutes later, I still have this dialog box on the screen:
Deleting 942 items (9.59 MB)
From: Search Results in Indexed Locations
Time remaining: About 1 Hour and 47 Minutes
Items remaining: 682 (9.59 MB)
Speed: 0 bytes/sec
Every couple minutes, I get a dialog box saying this:
Sharing
This folder is shared with other people
If you delete this folder, it will no longer be shared.
Blah blah blah...
Continue or Cancel
I'm getting one of these dialog boxes for each of the folders being deleted.
I press Continue on each one.
None of the files or folders are shared, despite what the dialog box says.
A couple of critical problems:
1. It's utterly unacceptable that I'm going to have to babysit the computer
for the next couple hours and press "Continue" a couple dozen times. Why is
there no "Yes to All" button?
2. It's also utterly unacceptable that deleting less than a thousand files
should take almost two hours. During this deletion operation, according to
Resource Monitor, explorer.exe is taking most of my CPU power, and "System"
is writing to c:\$LogFile and c:\$Mft at a combined rate of about 230MB/min.
I've typed this entire message while the delete is in progress, being
interrupted a few times to press "Continue".
Now I will have to sit here for a long while more.
Are these known bugs which are going to be fixed in the Vista final release?
Update:
Now that the deletion has finally finished, all of the files and folders are
still displayed in the search window. So I press alt-v and choose "Refresh".
The results pane clears, and displays just "Searching..." for a few seconds,
and then... all of the files and folders are displayed again! Yet when I
double-click one of the files, it says that the file has been deleted.
Thinking this is just a glitch in Vista's search, that the refresh operation
doesn't work, I closed search, and then started it again from the Start
menu, and re-ran the search for the name "small", and got the same results
yet again!
But if I open the folders in explorer where search is claiming these files
are, the files aren't actually there; they've been deleted.
So then where is Vista's search program getting all of this file and folder
data from, if all of the files and folders were deleted? Is it automatically
searching previous versions? If so, how can I make it stop doing that?
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