Runaway system - Sending files to recycle bin

[hst]

Today I've been trying to run a script making a backup to an external USB connected disk. It will first delete a larger number of files (> 100.00) and then it should start copying.
But I get a memory full (6 GB!) and CPU is over 90%. The system will not respond anymore.
It looks as if the program is stacking everything in memory.
I had a simular script running to a NAS server and there it worked fine.

Normally I don't use a paging file and so far never needed it. So I tried it with a paging file (system controlled) but ran into the same problem.
The systems runs dead on full memory and overloaded CPU.

This is a very annoying problem, hope there is a solution for it.

[TGRMN Software]

Hi,

how many files in total in this job?
if you are sending files to the recycle bin, try switching that off, (ViceVersa -> view -> preferences)

thanks
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[hst]

Thank you for your reply.

These are the numbers:
- Status Summary -
- Total Files - Source: 56.453 (41,76GB) - Target: 170.524 (30,35GB)
- Excluded Files - Source: 0 (0) - Target: 0 (0)
- Matched Files - Source: 20.899 (16,90GB) - Target: 20.899 (16,90GB)
- Single Files - Source: 34.722 (24,29GB) - Target: 148.793 (12,81GB)
- Newer Files - Source: 235 (146,80MB) - Target: 597 (502,24MB)
- Older Files - Source: 597 (440,48MB) - Target: 235 (148,01MB)
- Total Subfolders - Source: 4.499 - Target: 8.879
- Excluded Subfolders - Source: 0 - Target: 0
- Matched Subfolders - Source: 2.475 - Target: 2.475
- Single Subfolders - Source: 2.024 - Target: 6.404
- To Do - Backup (Mirror Source to Target)
- Files to Add - Source: 0 (0) - Target: 34.722 (24,29GB)
- Files to Update - Source: 0 (0) - Target: 235 (146,80MB)
- Files to Delete - Source: 0 (0) - Target: 148.793 (12,81GB)
- Subfolders to Add - Source: 0 - Target: 2.024
- Subfolders to Delete - Source: 0 - Target: 6.404

Tried it again with the switch off as you adviced, that worked. Memory usage now stayed around 2,76GB and CPU load around 10%.
I would like the program to monitor these parameters and advice or alert the user instead of the system running into overload with all possible consequences of system corruption.

[TGRMN Software]

Hi,
this problem seems to occur on certain systems when sending files to the recycle bin, but it's not due to ViceVersa ...
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