Answer by ajoshi for "Discovering items" .. takes long time
The problem with Windows GUI is that it tries to calculate the total volume of bytes to be copied before starting the work. While it may not be a problem while copying files within the same hard drive,...
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In windows explorer go to Tools Folder Options View Tab and check mark the first option "Always show icons, never thumbnails. Will solve the problem. If you want to see thumbnails in the folders again,...
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I had a similar problem in Windows XP, mostly due to messing up Registry settings. It was so bad that I couldn't access any partition other than C:/ and without going to My Computer.How I messed up the...
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I can not help you with the movement and copying. But I got around the deleting issues with the command prompt using:del *complete folder path*
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I had that same extremely annoying problem, where deleting empty folder would block while "discovering items".The moment when I killed TSVNCache.exe and/or TGitCache.exe discovering was done and I...
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I've worked around this by moving large folders from the command-line (cmd.exe) instead:c:\> move c:\stuff\big-folder c:\other-stuff\some-other-folderThis works very quickly for me for dirs under...
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I found a huge post with LOT'S of suggestions. It could be related to many things...First step would be to boot into Safe mode and see if the behavior is still happening. If it isn't you know it isn't...
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I have a rather annoying issue with my Windows 7 computer whereby it seems to take ages to delete, move or copy folders, even when they are empty. The problem is intermittent, to make matters worse. It...
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