Re: Slow file deletion

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In message <mid274dd90hk07ftjqdhlr66utuj7off11@xxxxxxx>, Anthony R. Gold 
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> I've just started with a new laptop - much like others except a bit more
> memory (2GB) and faster HDD (7.2k SATA) under XP and one behaviour is
> mystifying me - deleting very large files is very slow.  By very large I
> mean over 10GB(*) and by slow I mean over 15 minutes.  No error messages,
> nothing locked AFAICT, just mysteriously very very slow.  BTW the same type
> of deletion is instantaneous when done in safe mode.  And also I get the
> same behaviours (fast under safe mode and slow under normal XP) whether
> deleting large files from the local SATA drive or from USB attached drives.
>
> * I need to do this as I make successive backups using PQ DriveImage or
> Ghost 10 and old archives need to be removed to make space for newer ones.
>
> Anyone got any ideas?
>
> Tony
Is it similarly slow moving them?

Could be your virus checker being over enthusiastic and scanning the 
file.  Depending on how XP does a deletion, it could be scanning 
multiple times.

Can you tell it to ignore files with whatever extension Ghost uses for 
its archives?


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Peter R Cook