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I wish they did something so deleting files from the bin wouldn't take millenia on my iMac Pro. Yes, it's an old computer, but shouldn't that be a solved proble
by auggierose 3y ago
I wish they did something so deleting files from the bin wouldn't take millenia on my iMac Pro. Yes, it's an old computer, but shouldn't that be a solved problem?
- pvg 3y agoNot a real fix but doing it from the command line is usually strikingly faster.
- krackers 3y agoI think it's because for some reason they go through an first enumerate the files so they can later show you the progress. But the time spent to enumerate the files is time that could have been spent deleting?
- vaughan 3y agoMeanwhile Windows still struggles with getting files to the bin.
- lxgr 3y agoAre you referring to the "exclusive advisory locks by default" policy it carried over from MS-DOS? If so, yes, I do feel like that's the worst architectural decision of Windows. Ultimately, it's what makes software updates as hard as they are there: Just being able to do an "apt-get update" with applications open without anything exploding was a true revelation the first time I used a Unix.
- adiabatty 3y agoThis wasn’t slow for me unless I was deleting a node_modules folder or something with a gazillion files in it. Sounds like something’s weird on your not-that-old iMac Pro.
- crazygringo 3y agoI'm genuinely curious, why does this take so long? I can't even begin to imagine. If I'm deleting 200 files on my M1 MBA, that's still going to take 30-45 seconds. It's doing something. What is it doing? Does it have something to do with Time Machine or file versioning or secure erase or what? Everything else is blazingly fast as it should be.