Thngs I learned today
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If you created 300k temp files while benchmarking something, delete them from the command prompt not the winXP explorer. The former took under a minute to clean up the mess. After 20m the latter appears to've crashed. I'm waiting to see if it protests after a few hours about files not being found though so I haven't endtasked it. :doh:
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
Learned that a long time ago; Windows explorer has always been a dog with lots of files and it's gotten worse with each Windows version.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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If you created 300k temp files while benchmarking something, delete them from the command prompt not the winXP explorer. The former took under a minute to clean up the mess. After 20m the latter appears to've crashed. I'm waiting to see if it protests after a few hours about files not being found though so I haven't endtasked it. :doh:
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
It's the same for cleaning up the Windows Temp folder. If you do it via Explorer it will stop when it gets to the first locked file. The command prompt will delete all the unlocked files and leave the locked files alone.
Regards, Nish
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dan neely wrote:
Thngs I learned today
Your keyboard lacks a lowercase i?
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It's the same for cleaning up the Windows Temp folder. If you do it via Explorer it will stop when it gets to the first locked file. The command prompt will delete all the unlocked files and leave the locked files alone.
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com link -
If you created 300k temp files while benchmarking something, delete them from the command prompt not the winXP explorer. The former took under a minute to clean up the mess. After 20m the latter appears to've crashed. I'm waiting to see if it protests after a few hours about files not being found though so I haven't endtasked it. :doh:
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
When you delete from the explorer, the files are moved to the Recycle Bin instead of just deleted. Changing the directory structure takes a lot more time than just simply a delete, especially if the bin is using its maximum size and needs to calculate and flush some other files instead. Use shift delete instead. But remember that the files are gone then just like when you delete from the prompt
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This is fixed in vista.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
dan neely wrote:
This is fixed in vista.
Well yeah, Vista brings up that dialog that lets you skip the locked items.
Regards, Nish
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No, he is Turkish :)
xacc.ide - now with TabsToSpaces support
IronScheme - 1.0 beta 2 - out now!
((lambda (x) `((lambda (x) ,x) ',x)) '`((lambda (x) ,x) ',x))I guess only a few would understand this joke. ;P
If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. - Charlie Brooker My Photos/CP Flickr Group - ScrewTurn Wiki
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If you created 300k temp files while benchmarking something, delete them from the command prompt not the winXP explorer. The former took under a minute to clean up the mess. After 20m the latter appears to've crashed. I'm waiting to see if it protests after a few hours about files not being found though so I haven't endtasked it. :doh:
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
dan neely wrote:
I'm waiting to see if it protests after a few hours about files not being found though so I haven't endtasked it. D'Oh!
and 2 hours later it finally protests. :doh:
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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I guess only a few would understand this joke. ;P
If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. - Charlie Brooker My Photos/CP Flickr Group - ScrewTurn Wiki
Having struggled, long ago, with case insensitive string matches not working on a Turkish system running a VB6 app, I know exactly what you mean. Damn Turks, I mean who needs 4 i's.
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Having struggled, long ago, with case insensitive string matches not working on a Turkish system running a VB6 app, I know exactly what you mean. Damn Turks, I mean who needs 4 i's.
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I guess only a few would understand this joke. ;P
If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. - Charlie Brooker My Photos/CP Flickr Group - ScrewTurn Wiki
Dario Solera wrote:
I guess only a few would understand this joke.
I had to make it blatant too with that joke icon thingy :)
xacc.ide - now with TabsToSpaces support
IronScheme - 1.0 beta 2 - out now!
((lambda (x) `((lambda (x) ,x) ',x)) '`((lambda (x) ,x) ',x)) -
If you created 300k temp files while benchmarking something, delete them from the command prompt not the winXP explorer. The former took under a minute to clean up the mess. After 20m the latter appears to've crashed. I'm waiting to see if it protests after a few hours about files not being found though so I haven't endtasked it. :doh:
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
I often try and delete a source tree of some 100k files (many branches of about 13k files), and give up on Vista. Then I go to command prompt, and the deletes are blazingly fast, but I get access denied errors (as admin) on all the svn files. Then I go back to Windows Explorer to investigate, and I can delete the svn files no problem.
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dan neely wrote:
This is fixed in vista.
Well yeah, Vista brings up that dialog that lets you skip the locked items.
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com linkthat is if explorer actually lets you do something and not spend all its time filling in the address bar with green ink - like a very slow fill operation - sort of reminds of the hobbit game on the sinclair spectrum
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it. - pTerry
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