I have a desktop computer, running Windows 10, which used to be backed up with windows file history. Everything is backed up to an external hard drive , and I wanted to start freeing up some space on the hard drive . Since I don't use windows file history anymore I figured I would delete the folder . I tried to delete the folder and about six hours later it's still in "discovery" mode. 2.558 Million files so far at 427 GB worth.
It can't even tell me estimated time remaining, it just says "calculating. lol.
Obviously it would be so much faster just to reformat the whole external hard drive and start over, but just for future reference, is there a quicker way to delete a large folder? Can you compress it? Would that be quicker and then delete it? EDIT: Forget I just asked that lol. Compression would still leave the original folder duh
It seems ridiculous, that if I just simply wanna know the size of the folder, and right click, then properties, it would still take hours and hours to discover everything just to tell me the size of the folder.
I'm gonna let it run all night out of curiosity just to see when the hell it's gonna stop and how many millions of files are in there, from file history backing up for however long it was (a year or two not sure)
thanks
It can't even tell me estimated time remaining, it just says "calculating. lol.
Obviously it would be so much faster just to reformat the whole external hard drive and start over, but just for future reference, is there a quicker way to delete a large folder? Can you compress it? Would that be quicker and then delete it? EDIT: Forget I just asked that lol. Compression would still leave the original folder duh
It seems ridiculous, that if I just simply wanna know the size of the folder, and right click, then properties, it would still take hours and hours to discover everything just to tell me the size of the folder.
I'm gonna let it run all night out of curiosity just to see when the hell it's gonna stop and how many millions of files are in there, from file history backing up for however long it was (a year or two not sure)
thanks