Support • Re: File deletion taking quite a while

I wonder if deleting the files has triggered a new USN Journal.
-It might explain the 4 MB/s of activity from the service -sounds like the service is doing a reindex or a large USN journal read.



Please try increasing your USN Journal sizes:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the NTFS tab on the left.
• Select the drive where you are deleting files.
• Set the maximum size to: 131072 KB.
  (repeat for additional drives)
• Click OK.

Please try forcing a rebuild before a large delete:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the Indexes tab on the left.
• Click Force Rebuild.
• Click OK.

-Does this help?


Everything 1.4 uses SHFileOperation.
SHFileOperation doesn't like deleting files which don't exist.
SHFileOperation doesn't like very long filenames (>259 characters).
SHFileOperation takes filenames, and converts them to PIDLs internally, this can take a very long time.

Everything 1.5 uses the modern IFileOperation which might improve stability.
Everything 1.5 also improves handling of deleting files that no longer exist.
IFileOperation doesn't like very long filenames (>259 characters). However, Everything 1.5 will handle these itself.
A progress bar is shown in the statusbar when deleting a large number of files.

Statistics: Posted by void — Sun Aug 24, 2025 10:31 pm

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