Sloooooow delete to Recycle Bin

[JoeMarfice]

This appears to be an xyPlorer problem, as the built-in Windows File Manager has no such problem.

When I delete a file, the "Preparing to Recycle - Discovering items" dialog comes up, and under "Details" it says "Time remaining (calculating)" and "Files remaining (calculating)" and . In the meantime, touching xyPlorer in any way produces a "Busy - Switch to" dialog (with Cancel grayed out). It takes about 10 seconds to delete the file, regardless of size. Happens on all drives. Moves and copies occur normally (almost instantly). Full deletes - skipping the Recycle Bin - occur instantly. I'm in High Performance mode, with disk drives not allowed to spin down.

May be related to this issue, which went unanswered:
http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... ow#p130701

It's only been happening for the last few hours today, but AFAICT I haven't changed any settings today. I tried repairing my Recycle bin (cmd.exe as Administrator, rd /s q C:\$Recycle Bin, repeat for other drives). This showed that two drives have undeletable files in their Bins, FWIW. Starting in safe mode didn't allow me to delete those, either. The "undeletable files" don't show up in the Recycle Bin, even in Windows FIle Manager.

Any clues where to look next?

[admin]

I have never seen these messages here. Is your Recycle Bin very full?

It's only been happening for the last few hours today, but AFAICT I haven't changed any settings today...

Did you try a Windows reboot?

[JoeMarfice]

Nope, and in fact I emptied it. There is one undeletable file on D: and one on F:; all the other drives - including C:, and C: also has the slow-delete issue - have nothing in the Recycle Bin. I should mention the "undeletable files" are based on messages after issuing rd /s "<drive>:\$Recycle Bin".

Interesting... while trying to create a text file on C: (to then delete), I got the same 10-second pause - followed by a denial (insufficient permission). When I attempted to move a text file there, it asked me for Administrator permission to do so, no wait required.

But in general I'm not deleting privileged files. I'm doing this logged in as Admin, and deleting files owned by Admin (with public sharing).

Ran chkdsk yesterday on C: and most of D:. Forgot to run it on E/F/G last night. :\ But, I doubt that's the problem, since C-only operations are affected (and the OS is on C:).

[JoeMarfice]

I renamed the INI file and LastINI.dat, to try to see if a setting was causing this. No change. Then I uninstalled XYplorer altogether, hoping a reinstall would clear it... but after a reboot I remembered that IrfanView also showed this delay when deleting pictures. That also started yesterday, but I assumed since XYP was my default file manager requests from IrfanView were simply being routed to XYP. Now that XYP isn't there.... apparently the problem is in my Windows OS, but not in such a way that it affects the Windows File Manager.

And now I've reinstalled XYP again. Problem remains - which makes sense, since it remained with IrfanView. Don't know WHY there's a problem with those two, but NOT with File Manager... but at least it's not an XYP problem. :\

[admin]

Often Windows Defender is reponsible for long delays (but File Manager is not affected by it). You could try to exclude XY from WD and see what happens.

[Eep²]

I'm having this problem too. Only thing I can think of is run32dll.exe is the culprit since I replaced mine in Windows\system32 with the one from the Windows 7 CD to try and fix another issue I'm having with some Windows Control Panel CPL files not loading. I can't restore the original run32dll.exe either since I overwrote it.

Update: after a reboot, the problem went away. Who knows...