Whenever I delete files in DOpus, it takes forever — I could count out loud faster than it deletes, and when deleting lots of files, sometimes it just blanks out and hangs. I delete to the Recycle Bin which has many Gb of space, and I have plenty of memory on my system. Here's my settings under Preferences / File Operations for deleting and copying.
Help me out. What am I missing? [Thanks!]
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You've already got "count files before deleting" turned off, which removes one of the things that can take a while.
Since you're deleting to the recycle bin Opus is pretty much out of the picture. It just passes the list of files to the same API that Explorer uses so Opus should be deleting at the same speed as Explorer.
If you delete without using the recycle bin things may be faster as Opus will delete the files by itself, but obviously it is harder to undo mistakes.
If it's really slow but you have space free I'd try defragging the drive.
Didn't help, but thanks. The drive was already clean and defragged. I turned off deleting to the Recyle Bin and in an attempt to delete 2800 files, DOpus froze again.
If I use either Windows Explorer or ExplorerPlus, the files are gone in less than 15 seconds, no problems. I'm using 3.5B7 on WinXP Pro-SP2 with 4G of RAM just for the record.
Strange...
Is deleting to the recycle bin the same speed in Opus and Explorer?
If you delete files in the other programs while an Opus window is showing the same directory, does it cause the slow-down?
Edit: Sorry, I didn't notice before you said it was freezing rather than just going slowly. Try those two things anyway and see if it triggers the freeze. Can't think why it would happen, though.
I don't have an answer for you Zaine, but I can confirm the same behaviour on my machine, which sounds very similar to yours. However in my situation Opus isn't freezing up, it's just busy. When I want to delete a large number of files in a folder, I might have to wait a good 5 minutes or so before it'll actually begin deleting. If I try to hurry Opus along, then it does appear to have crashed but in reality, it's just busy.
I've never really explored why it can take so long, maybe I'd better do that.
Thanks guys. When DOpus doesn't freeze, it apparently deletes the files, but then I have to watch each file in the list window being methodically removed, one by one, and that takes forever. As John stated, DOpus just takes its time when that happens.
I've noticed no difference between deleting to the Recycle Bin or not doing so. Either way, deleting [a large number of] files using DOpus is far slower than Windows Explorer. It's not a crisis, but is an annoyance. I do the usenet thing and collect thousands of files each day that get deleted.