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embedding-shapetoday at 12:14 AM1 replyview on HN

Windows seemingly hate many tiny files, even in sharded directories, many ecosystems suffered because of this; node_modules, .git, the examples are many.


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analog31today at 2:39 AM

Yeah, I remember trying to delete a fully loaded Python installation that had found its way onto a OneDrive-managed folder. After a chat with IT, I learned that OneDrive can only delete X number of files at once. We agreed that the most practical solution was for me to spend an hour deleting files by hand, and choose another drive next time. Fortunately I don't really depend on OneDrive as a backup, since GitHub does that job well enough.

The other thing is that both Git and OneDrive are in some sense fiddling with your file system at once.