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I have one folder, in particular my 'Downloads' folder, that windows is struggling to read. It gets there in the end but even sorting the files by date takes a could of minutes. It is only about 500 files and maybe 15 GB total, and is hosted on a new (months old) Samsung SSD.
Any ideas on a diagnosis? It feels perhaps like a corrupt file or two slowing the system down but I'm not sure.
J Collins
Posted 2019-10-24T17:12:36.387
Reputation: 412
2Have you tried performing a
chkdskon the device? – Ramhound – 2019-10-24T17:18:28.433I have not, will report the results when I do. – J Collins – 2019-10-24T17:20:39.137
1Leave the folder and files in place. Make a new folder somewhere else. Copy the files to the new folder. Are the new file copies in the new folder still slow? – John – 2019-10-24T17:21:19.740
Before you responded I literally just moved half of the files to a subfolder. Both folders were fast. moving them back and the folder is quick again. I will report whether the problem returns. – J Collins – 2019-10-24T17:25:52.727
2Better check the SMART data of the SSD. – harrymc – 2019-10-24T17:36:19.553
1Please let us know what you find – John – 2019-10-24T17:53:12.930
If I had to guess I suspect your security software is scanning files in there as Explorer maybe opens the files for image resources, etc.. What AV product do you have? Is it faster when realtime/on-access scanning is disabled? If you run Process Monitor (Microsoft/Sysinternals) with a path filter for this directory, what processes are "interested" in these files? – HelpingHand – 2019-10-24T19:17:16.227