Lets just say I got carried away with duplicating empty folders. Now I have one folder that contains 8075807 empty folders. I went to delete it and its been searching to find them all for hours and its only found 4 million so far. Usually the deleting part takes longer. Is there a better way?
Don’t do this in explorer, just use command line (rmdir /s).
Are they all in the same tree?
It was what looked like a family tree. Desktop had 1 file, that contained 2 files, those contained 3 file, those contained 4, all the way to 10
You can use rd /s /q if you want to delete everything ( with sub directories in they tree). There is a robocopy trick to delete all empty selectively
I’ve found the command line to be faster in most cases
Lmao, kind of a funny situation you got yourself into. I believe making it so hitting delete skips the recycle bin entirely could help, since the files aren’t being moved first.
On your desktop, right click your recycle bin, hit properties, and toggle the option that says something along the lines of ‘remove files immediately when deleted’
Let me know if this helps!
Fileshredder… its a program. :)