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Old 10-24-2010, 06:12 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by speakingtohe View Post
Create a tempoarary folder on same drive
Select all of the files you want to delete.
Move them into the tempoarary folder by clicking and dragging, do not cut
and paste
Delete the temporary file.

It's not elegant but it works.
I don't know if you mean me but, you cannot do that, using explorer, with a folder containing 350000 files. It would take hours (literally) just to select the files. It took an hour just to get the properties page to display. Windows just does not expect a folder to contain that number of files.

Oddly enough, DOS doesn't mind. I copied a few hundred files and directory listings from the jumbo folder for future reference using DOS. Yay, DOS.
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