Thanks for that.
Turning off indexing makes the deleting files back to the way it should be...
Although it still take 60 seconds or so to refresh the file list

That is something I can bear... Better that 15+ minutes to delete.

Thanks again.

"Dennis Bryant BPC Solutions" wrote:
Have you checked wether indexing is active on the drive? I don't know that
this is the problem but it sounds like maybe you have some
allocation/pointer issues. Just a thought.


"Cynyster" wrote in message
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Ok this has got to be one of the more annoying problems for me . Even more
than
the random folder view every time you enter a folder.

I have a foler that collects a large number of small files for a program
that
I use.. Typically they are under 50k in size but often there can be
close to
200,000 in a single folder.

If I want to delete one it can take several minutes to delete it...

It will sit at "preparing to delete" for what seems like forever.

The more files in a folder the longer it takes...

Now my computer is arguably top of the line it has an intel s3200 MB
with a
xeon quad core and 4 gigs of ram and terrabyte hard drives.

It should not take 15 minutes to delete 1,000 of the 200,000 files,

Additionally these files are on a second internal physical drive and
should
have nothing to do with the rest of the system.

Oh and one other note. Mass deleting files from a command prompt works
fine.
so if I want to delete everything in the folder via a command prompt it
works
as expected but if I try via windows explorer it takes forever.

Has M$ come out with a patch for this yet? I am on service pack 2 of
vista
ultimate and it has all the updates that were presented via the update
utility.

Thanks for any help