deleting 62000 rar's from desktop (1 Viewer)

[redruM]

i tried to split a 700mb video file and i must have typed something wrong, and it is split into about 62 000 small rar's. my computer struggles when i try to delete them(all at once or even 100 at a time).

i suppose i can try in safe mode, but for that i'll need to reboot. last time i rebooted, the comp struggled to open up. and also, i dont know how safe mode will help, other than freeing up resources..

any other solutions people can recommend?

thanks in advance.

edit: if i try to fiddle around too much, explorer.exe shoots right up. i have to kill the process so i can use the comp.

 

[Grizzly]

haha silly rahul

Not sure if it works, but maybe try and delete the folder instead of the actual files ? or would that be too slow too ?

Maybe try throu CMD ?

 

[Götterfunken]

run -> cmd

type in 'del *.rar'

then press y

 

[AsyLum]

dont know if explorer can handle wildcards :S

but since theyre sequential, perhaps xxx**.rar etc

 

[redruM]

hey josh, i cant delete the folder because there are other important folders/files on the desktop. the rar's are all over the desktop.

i'd have to do it individually in cmd?

edit: i'll try that out. asy and gotterfunken

 

[Götterfunken]

wait maybe not. wait yes.

 

[Grizzly]

can u cut>copy the folder to another location ?..i.e. recycle bin ? ..or another place u can just delete the whole folder ?

 

[fatmuscle]

zip them up into 1 file, with the 'delete files when compressed' option.
then delete ur i file

 

[redruM]

i cant select all the files. so i cant select them as the files to zip, even trying to go thru winzip/rar.

i can open 1 of the rar's and then the 700mb vid file is there ready for extraction. would that help in any way to delete this?

 

[redruM]

ok so i fixed the problem in safe mode, deleting 5000 - 15000 at a time, took a bit of time but not too long. copied and pasted into recycle bin.

 

[santaslayer]

ok so i fixed the problem in safe mode, deleting 5000 - 15000 at a time, took a bit of time but not too long. copied and pasted into recycle bin.

That sounds fun.

 

[Minai]

It would've been better to boot to DOS and type del *.rar or *.r**

 

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not such a good idea to do the *.rar method, cos everything with rar extention will be gone. so you might've backed something and forgot bout it and accidentally deleted it...

best way is to do what ian said

oh, and stop downloading porn