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Why does moving large folders take a lot of time?
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I have a large folder with >100k files. I moved it into my archive folder and its taking forever to move. Why is that? I know on XP it takes less than one second but not on Windows 7. I am sure its a permission thing, is there a way I can disable it and make it faster? I am moving the folder into a…
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It happens when I use Windows Explorer to move (or to cut and paste). The only way around this that I know of is to use something other than Explorer to move the directory. For example from Windows' cmd.exe, using moves even large directories instan…
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