What is the best way to delete over 100,000 files?

Question

I am trying to delete a large number of files uploaded to the MarkLogic database. The number of files in the directory that I want to delete is more than 100,000. I usually use two methods to delete files in the query console. Each file in the directory is indexed.

for $x in xdmp:directory("/English/","infinity")
return xdmp:document-delete(fn:document-uri($x))

and

xdmp:directory-delete("/English/")

When I execute any of the above methods, I get a "Time limit exceeded" which interrupts the operation.

My question

• Is there any other better way to delete a bunch of files?
• If not, is there a way to ignore XDMP-EXTIME or SVC-EXTIME?

Answer 1

If you can clean the forest (s), this is often faster than removing a large number of documents.

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Answer 2

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