Machine: Win10 VR Beasty, Has a 12TB+ drive pool as well as a M.2 boot. Mistake: Switching Filehistory on for Windows 10, and letting it use drive pool. Problem: I run out of space on the drive pool and turns out that FileHistory has used a few terabytes of data. Fix: Using command line to delete everything is still taking an age, there's still over 5.5million files to delete Question: Other than some method that involves moving the 'I want to keep the data' off the pool, and deleting the whole thing is there any way I can quickly delete a 1TB+ folder that contains tens of thousands of nested folders and millions of files? At it stands at the moment I'm going to have to put the delete into a startup batch and get it to chip away at the files bit by bit. rmdir seems to be the quickest, but on a slow drive pool with this much data it's still silly slow. Quicker than not using cmd, doing it via the desktop would have taken over 1,500 years.
I've had success deleting 5TB of data using robocopy to copy the contents of an empty directory into the directory I want to delete. It can go horribly wrong though, so i'd say only do it as a last resort
iirc, just using windows built-in stuff... in powershell: Code: Remove-Item x:\path\to\folder -Force -Recurse in cmd: Code: del /f/s/q foldername > nul rmdir /s/q foldername using 3rd party tools - TeraCopy EDIT: iirc - Code: robocopy [empty folder] [folder you want gone] /purge
