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02.07.2008 at 07:53AM PST, ID: 23144776
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Quickly delete thousands of files in XP

Asked by wwfarch in Windows XP Operating System, Windows Batch Scripting

Tags: Microsoft, Windows, XP, Delete thousands of files

I'm looking for a way to quickly delete many thousands of files from XP. I have directories each of which contains 100,000+ .csv files that need to be deleted. I've tried
del *.csv
which does delete the files but it takes about two hours for each folder that I run this script on. Is there a way that I can use to quickly delete the files? If not I can schedule a task to run nightly until this process finishes but I would like to have this finished today if at all possible.

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Zones: Windows XP Operating System, Windows Batch Scripting
Tags: Microsoft, Windows, XP, Delete thousands of files
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