Need help ASAP - SYSTEM overload

[Mkilbride]

I wanted to zip a file, into 50MB bits, however, I put it into 50KB! The file was 4GB..

I have hundreds of thousands of tiny files littering my desktop, around 260,000, causing my RAM & CPU to max out, and I've attempted to select all > Delete, but it just freezes up and I waited 3 hours and no progress!

What can I do! IS there some way to delete them better ?!


*Update 1

I just attempted to do a System restore to a time before I did it - But they're still here!

 

[SPS]

Have you tried removing the items in groups in Windows Explorer?

 

[SuB]

This is actually hilarious. You need to use a cmd prompt dude, look up the delete commands and you can probably do it en-masse.

Seriously though, this is, excellently hilarious.

 

[looz]

Hahah that is something I've never heard before!

Make a bootable linux stick, boot into linux, navigate into your desktop and delete them.

 

[SuB]

P.S. take a screenshot of this, I gotta see it

 

[barnsley]

Oh dear, not your day is it ^_^.

 

[Mkilbride]

Yes I have. tried groups, but at about 20 or so, it'll freeze.

I've done command prompt as well, but they're zip files, so I can't just delete them due to their file type.

Nothing about this is hilarious either, my system is bogged down to the core and I spent a good deal of time trying to delete them slowly, but it'd still take hours of clicking.

This is such a bad thing, especially after my driver issues. I can only really see formatting as a possibility now. What can I do?

 

[Snortan]

Reboot in safe mode, open the command line and try

del /f /s /a "C:\users\yourusername\desktop\*.zip

Replace zip with your file extension (rar,zip,7zip).
Alternatively download a distro of linux like Ubuntu/Mint, put it on a USB with a tool like UNetbooti/LinuxLive USB Creator, reboot and keep pressing F11 until the boot menu comes up, select linux and delete them from there.

 

[SPS]

Try booting in safe mode to delete them, there's probably a service in the background that's trying to read all the details of selected files and just hanging.

But you can delete any file type using cmd.

EDIT: Snortan beat me to it

 

[SuB]

Actually it is kinda funny dude, (mind the language if you please) if you don't see the funny side then you'll just go mad. The above mentioned prompt command in safe mode should do the trick though.

 

[Mkilbride]

I tried in safe mode. It froze there to. As for the zip files ,they're actually...the .255 type, so not zip or 7zip, I tried those command lines already man. It only detects about 10 at a time, and I have to keep typing

*100.zip
*101.zip
*102.zip

Ectera. It won't delete them all at once. However, something semes to be happening now in relations to this and I am leaving it on while I go to sleep soon and hoping it honestly deletes them, but yeah, I feel fucked.


Hey...hey!

It just ended...and like...the FILES are gone, I think - but sometimes they appear gone, then re-appear! I dunno.... Windows is still running very slowly, but I can't see the files anymore.


Any recommended linux ones?

 

[maniac]

#legend

 

[Mkilbride]

So, yes, this is a rather bad thing.

I think I just discovered a new way to troll somebody hardcore. Imagine if you took a 10? 20GB file, even, and did 1kb splits? Turned off the monitor and walked away. That person..

 

[Jeff_s510]

LOL i did this on accident a while ago on the school computer when trying to share a file with some of the class....set it to bites instead of MB. took a while to correct the issue

 

[SPS]

.255 type, that's the extension?

Why not try *.255?

 

[Mkilbride]

Ok SPS, but the thing is

All the files are .01, 0.2, ect, up into the hundreds of thousands.

 

[Snortan]

I don't think they have an extension, there is one main zip and the rest are 1xx... i think.
If you don't have any file on desktop that you need to keep then do

del /f /s /a "C:\users\yourusername\desktop\*"

which will delete everything on the desktop. Remember to empty the recycle bin btw.
For linux try Ubuntu or Linux Mint.

 

[looz]

Or just delete the whole desktop folder in explorer.

 

[SeekaX]

iirc people used to do that with .bat scripts back like 15 years ago, but with thousands of subfolders so you couldn't delete them anymore because the OS couldn't handle the path.

 

[S_I_N]

I'd just format and be done sounds like its beyond fixing with the op's state of mind.