why is moving files taking so long?

[iaskstuff]

i know it should take long as its 45000 files but its only 900mb which is why im asking this... i even attempted to delete them and now they're taking even longer to delete..

 

[USAFRet]

i know it should take long as its 45000 files but its only 900mb which is why im asking this... i even attempted to delete them and now they're taking even longer to delete..

45,000 files will take a 'long time', no matter what you are doing with them, and how 'large' they are.