# Empty recycle bin took 2 hours

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/empty-recycle-bin-took-2-hours/226326>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [May 20, 2007, 7:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/empty-recycle-bin-took-2-hours/226326 "2007-05-20T07:46:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![kdd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@kdd](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kdd)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2007, 7:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/empty-recycle-bin-took-2-hours/226326/1 "2007-05-20T07:46:45Z")

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Yes, you read that right. I had just deleted about 1 million folders from my computer. Then I just deleted 1 file. (bad move). Windows probably had to move more than a million pointers in the b-tree. 😛 That 1 file deletion took 15 minutes and still wasn’t done. So, I just deleted everything, which took about 2 hours. I’m not creating this many folders again!