{"id":844,"date":"2019-07-02T23:37:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T03:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/main.jmah.net\/?p=844"},"modified":"2019-07-02T23:39:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T03:39:03","slug":"how-to-delete-large-folders-in-windows-super-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/?p=844","title":{"rendered":"How to delete large folders super fast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"659\" height=\"332\" src=\"http:\/\/main.jmah.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/windows-super-fast-delete-large-folders.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-845\" srcset=\"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/windows-super-fast-delete-large-folders.jpg 659w, https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/windows-super-fast-delete-large-folders-300x151.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 659px) 100vw, 659px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>The two commands that users require are Del, for deleting files, and Rmdir, for removing directories.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tap on the Windows-key, type cmd.exe and select the result to load the command prompt.<\/li>\n<li>Navigate to the folder that you want to delete (with all its files and subfolders). Use cd path, e.g. cd o:\\backups\\test\\ to do so.<\/li>\n<li>The command DEL \/F\/Q\/S *.* &gt; NUL deletes all files in that folder structure, and omits the output which improves the process further.<\/li>\n<li>Use cd.. to navigate to the parent folder afterwards.<\/li>\n<li>Run the command RMDIR \/Q\/S foldername to delete the folder and all of its subfolders.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The commands may require some explanation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DEL \/F\/Q\/S *.* &gt; NUL<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\/F &#8212; forces the deletion of read-only files.<\/li>\n<li>\/Q &#8212; enables quiet mode. You are not ask if it is ok to delete files (if you don&#8217;t use this, you are asked for any file in the folder).<\/li>\n<li>\/S &#8212; runs the command on all files in any folder under the selected structure.<\/li>\n<li>*.* &#8212; delete all files.<\/li>\n<li>&gt; NUL &#8212; disables console output. This improves the process further, shaving off about one quarter of the processing time off of the console command.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>RMDIR \/Q\/S foldername<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\/Q &#8212; Quiet mode, won&#8217;t prompt for confirmation to delete folders.<\/li>\n<li>\/S &#8212; Run the operation on all folders of the selected path.<\/li>\n<li>foldername &#8212; The absolute path or relative folder name, e.g. o:\/backup\/test1 or test1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two commands that users require are Del, for deleting files, and Rmdir, for removing directories. Tap on the Windows-key, type cmd.exe and select the result to load the command prompt. Navigate to the folder that you want to delete &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/?p=844\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-information-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}