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by moritzwarhier 1138 days ago
> then wait wait wait wait even more for completely inscrutable reasons later on. (e.g. amazing how long you have to wait for Windows to delete the files in your node_modules directory)

As far as I know, windows explorer has been extremely slow for this kind of operation for ages. It's not even explainable by requiring a file list before starting the operation, I have no idea what it is about Windows explorer, it's just broken for such use cases.

Just recently, I had to look up how to write a robocopy script because simply copying a 60GB folder with many files from a local network drive was unbelievably slow (not to mention resuming failed operations). The purpose was exactly what I wrote: copy a folder in Windows explorer.

What does this have to do with React or JavaScript?