On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 12:17:33 -0400, John Covici wrote: > > > The cards I use are class 10, slow but pretty fast for the type of > > > card. Generally, I can download several hundred MBs in a minute or > > > two. Deleting sometimes over a 1,000 pics one at a time just isn't > > > feasible. That could take a long time. > > > > That wasn't my intention! > > I thought you should just select one file (remember its name), delete > > it, unmount, remount and see if the file is still there. > > So you can be sure that you really have a different issue than just > > performance. Trying to delete a folder takes ages and you don't see > > the file names. > > Definitely unmount, the sectors sometimes don't write to disk for > quite a while, and your unmount should take a few seconds to more than > a minute and so unmount and wait till it returns, and then remount and > see what happens.
I'd run sync as well, just to be sure, although umount shouldn't return until everything is flushed to the card. -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 001: Windows loaded - System in danger
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