Windows 10 Stuck in 'Discovering Files'

KapasG · Apr 13, 2017

I want to delete two massive videos (155 GB combined), but when I press delete, it starts the usual 'Preparing to move items to the Recycle Bin' procedure, and during that, it gets stuck on the 'Discovering items' part. Please help. Thanks in advance.

patcooke · Apr 13, 2017

KapasG said:
I want to delete two massive videos (155 GB combined), but when I press delete, it starts the usual 'Preparing to move items to the Recycle Bin' procedure, and during that, it gets stuck on the 'Discovering items' part. Please help. Thanks in advance.

Be better to hold down the shift key while pressing the delete key to just delete in instead of taking up recycle space.

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Neemobeer · Apr 13, 2017

Most likely the answer you're looking for is "you're going to have to just wait" when you delete a file it needs to mark each extent that file occupies in the MFT and with really large files they will have a ton of entries.

You can see how many extents it has with the command fsutil file queryextents <filename>

patcooke · Apr 13, 2017

KapasG said:
I want to delete two massive videos (155 GB combined), but when I press delete, it starts the usual 'Preparing to move items to the Recycle Bin' procedure, and during that, it gets stuck on the 'Discovering items' part. Please help. Thanks in advance.

Be better to hold down the shift key while pressing the delete key to just delete in instead of taking up recycle space.

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Windows 10 Stuck in 'Discovering Files'

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