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Originally Posted by banjomike
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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For rapid deletes of folders with massive numbers of files, I've used the old deltree command (with the /Y option). It's nearly instantaneous as it works only on the folder entry in the directory.