Windows 10: Explorer crashes when I try to delete a folder with a large amount of subfolders

Hi everyone ! When I started configuring a synced folder with Obsidian, I messed up one bit and and created a looping effect : I had that folder "sync" in which obsydian synced by my mistake the same folder again and again, always in a subfolder called synced. I quickly realised what went wrong, but the process had enough time to iterate a few dozens of time. Now, I told obsidian to stop any kind of syncing activity, everything is clean on that side, but now I can't delete the folder in which I have a recursive folder.Explorer‧exe crashes when I try to delete it, the software "eraser" can't

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Trouble deleting a folder

Thanks for the suggestion but it says "delete folder failed for E:\....." for each folder I try.

*Confused

Will I be forever stuck with these unnecessary folders? *Oh Well hwell:

 

How to delete folder and its subfolders and files in one-click in File Explorer?

In File Explorer, if you select a folder and click delete, if that folder contains subfolders, File Explorer will popup a message saying it cannot delete the folder because it is not empty. Instead, you have to delete each subfolder and file before you can delete the main folder. Using a Command Prompt, you can delete a folder and all its subfolders by using appropriate command-line options. There should be a way to do that in File Explorer. I wouldn't mind if File Explorer popped up and dialog box saying something like "The folder is not empty. Delete anyway? Y/N"

So the bottom line is: Is there a way to delete a folder and its subfolders and files with one click in File Explorer?

 

Files & Folders View as medium or large Icons

To assist you better, we would suggest that you try to follow the steps below:

• Open File Explorer.
• Once you are viewing a folder, right click an empty space within the File Explorer window and select View from the dialogue menu, then choose Large or any icon you wanted to use. Alternatively, you can use the following shortcut keys on the keyboard to
  change your View settings:

• CTRL + SHIFT + 1 Extra Large
• CTRL + SHIFT + 2 Large icons
• CTRL + SHIFT + 3 Medium Icons
• CTRL + SHIFT + 4 Small Icons
• CTRL + SHIFT + 5 List
• CTRL + SHIFT + 6 Details
• CTRL + SHIFT + 7 Tiles
• CTRL + SHIFT + 8 Content

3. Once you have the view set, you can make it the default view for

every folder.

4. Click Apply, then click OK.

Update us on the result.