Brutal loading times deleting files in Visual Studio
I have long had an issue with Visual Studio where it takes a ridiculous amount of time to delete a file. Sometimes it takes over a minute and the IDE is completely unusable while it is loading. I finally came across a this post by Matt Hinze that gives a solution. Apparently when you delete a file it scans your recycle bin which can take a long time if there are lot of files in there. All you have to do is empty your recycle bin and you should be able to delete files with no noticeable delay.
Believe it or not, I knew this! This is a problem with Adobe Lightroom as well. Kind of defeats the purpose of the recycle bin.
BTW - very cool format for your blog Graeme. I was talking to Shawn today and he mentioned it.
Thanks!
You’re right, it does defeat the purpose of the recycle bin. It’s too bad they can’t just have the long running part of the process go to a background thread and at least let you keep using the application.