Devops Pipeline DeleteFiles Very Slow

Farkler 211 Reputation points
2021-04-06T14:47:01.387+00:00

Devops DeleteFiles takes too long to clean up files. On our standalone version of Devops 2020 it can take up to 15 minutes to complete the "DeleteFiles" tasks. Any suggestions to get the complete quicker? Thanks

SourceFolder: '$(Build.SourcesDirectory)'
Contents: '**/*'

2021-04-06T14:13:16.1901754Z ##[section]Starting: DeleteFiles
2021-04-06T14:13:16.2039415Z ==============================================================================
2021-04-06T14:13:16.2039697Z Task : Delete files
2021-04-06T14:13:16.2039920Z Description : Delete folders, or files matching a pattern
2021-04-06T14:13:16.2040138Z Version : 1.166.2
2021-04-06T14:13:16.2040325Z Author : Microsoft Corporation
2021-04-06T14:13:16.2040606Z Help : https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/utility/delete-files
2021-04-06T14:13:16.2040933Z ==============================================================================
2021-04-06T14:27:26.0158391Z ##[section]Finishing: DeleteFiles

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-04-06T14:48:48.31+00:00

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