Faster way to delete folders with a lot of files?

[sshrum]

Seems that DirDelete should do the old fashion dir chop versus the 1 by 1 file remove until all the files are removed...this is taking a while to do when there are a lot (+200) files in a folder.

Is there a faster way?

[buzz44]

$Folder = "C:\Dont delete me\folder"

Run(@ComSpec & ' /c rmdir /s /q "' & $Folder & '"', "",@SW_HIDE )

Not sure what speed it will be, but its a different way. I tested it on a "New Folder", empty.

Edited April 19, 2005 by Burrup

[MHz]

DirRemove ( "path" [, recurse] )

Are you using 1 for recurse?

Hope your not using FileDelete('*') then DirRemove(), else that could be slow.

[Westi]

Hey, we are under a GUI OS!

So we should use

FileRecycle("C:\TEST")

...and i think this is the fastest way.

[sshrum]

Hey, we are under a GUI OS!

So we should use

FileRecycle("C:\TEST")

...and i think this is the fastest way. 

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Is this right??? I'll need to test this but my gut is telling me no.

That SHELL call might be what I'm looking for.

[steveR]

Is this right??? I'll need to test this but my gut is telling me no.

http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/f...FileRecycle.htm